Amazon Athena has released new Amazon CloudWatch metrics that provide insight on the compute resources your queries use. Starting today, you can use CloudWatch to analyze, chart, and monitor the utilization of Provisioned Capacity resources which helps you make informed adjustments to capacity and optimize cost. You can also inspect query-level metrics, which now include the compute used, measured in Data Processing Units (DPU), to understand how much capacity is used by each query that you run.
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports OpenSearch version 2.11
You can now run OpenSearch version 2.11 in Amazon OpenSearch Service. With OpenSearch 2.11, we have made several improvements to search, observability, security analytics, and OpenSearch Dashboards. This version includes features that were launched as part of open source OpenSearch versions 2.10 and 2.11. This launch includes the introduction of hybrid search queries , which uses normalization processors to improve search relevance, by combining relevance scores of lexical queries with natural language-based k-NN vector search queries. It also includes multimodal search , which allows users to search image and text pairs like product catalog items, and the introduction of neural sparse retrieval in addition to existing dense retrieval for semantic search applications. Search practitioners can test out these new search methods with the new search comparison tool which lets you compare the results of two different search queries side by side in OpenSearch Dashboards.
EC2 Security group connection tracking adds support for configurable idle timeouts
Today, AWS announced a new EC2 capability to configure idle timeouts for instance connection tracking. This will allow customers to manage their instance’s connection tracking resources and providing them the ability to configure optimal timeouts to manage connection scale. EC2 utilizes Connection Tracking (conntrack) to implement Security Groups and to enforce rules. With this new feature, idle timeouts for connections in the TCP Established, UDP stream and UDP unidirectional sessions on EC2 instances are now configurable on a per Elastic Network Interface (ENI) basis and can be edited from their default timeout settings. Prior to today, all idle connections in TCP and UDP states were tracked for a pre-defined default period or until they were closed.
Amazon Redshift Serverless is now generally available in the AWS China (Beijing) Region
Amazon Redshift Serverless, which allows you to run and scale analytics without having to provision and manage data warehouse clusters, is now generally available in the AWS China (Beijing) region. With Amazon Redshift Serverless, all users—including data analysts, developers, and data scientists—can now use Amazon Redshift to get insights from data in seconds. Amazon Redshift Serverless automatically provisions and intelligently scales data warehouse capacity to deliver high performance for all your analytics. You only pay for the compute used for the duration of the workloads on a per-second basis. You can benefit from this simplicity without making any changes to your existing analytics and business intelligence applications.
Announcing AWS IAM Identity Center APIs for visibility into workforce access to AWS
Announcing List Assignment APIs for AWS IAM Identity Center, enabling you to view who has access to what AWS accounts and applications. With these APIs, you can list all AWS accounts and applications that a specific user or group can access. You can use the API response in workflows to generate periodic reports and audit your employee access to AWS, saving time and effort you previously spent on manual audits. You can programmatically inspect and verify an employee’s AWS access with these APIs, and use this information to re-certify or revoke their access.
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AWS Glue Data Catalog now supports generating column-level statistics
AWS Glue Data Catalog now supports generating column-level statistics for AWS Glue tables. These statistics are now integrated with cost-based optimizer (CBO) from Amazon Athena and Amazon Redshift Spectrum, resulting in improved query performance and potential cost savings.
Amazon Connect now offers quick responses for contact center agents engaged in chats
Amazon Connect now offers quick responses for chats making it easy for agents to use pre-written responses to resolve customer issues with greater speed and accuracy. Managers can create quick responses in the Amazon Connect admin website for agents to use while responding to chats.
Amazon CodeCatalyst now supports Virtual Private Cloud
Today, AWS announces support for Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) within Amazon CodeCatalyst. This launch allows you to connect to a VPC from CodeCatalyst Workflows, extending the number of developer scenarios supported by CodeCatalyst.
Amazon QuickSight now supports programmatic user access management by assigning groups to roles
Amazon QuickSight now supports access management by assigning groups to Admin, Author and Reader roles programmatically for IAM Identity Center and Active Directory enabled QuickSight accounts.