Amazon QuickSight is excited to announce the launch of Custom Total feature for Tables and Pivot tables. This new functionality enhances user flexibility and streamlines the process of defining calculations. Users now have the convenience of specifying calculations such as Sum, Average, Min, Max, and None (Hide) from a predefined list to compute totals in table/pivot table charts with a straightforward, one-click method within the user interface. This eliminates the need for users to create intricate calculation formulas for accurate data retrieval at both the row level and total calculation. Additionally, the feature is accessible through public API and is supported by AWS CloudFormation. For further details, visit here .

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports On-Demand write throughput limit of 2 GB/s, a 2x increase from the current limit of 1 GB/s. Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a serverless streaming data service that makes it easier to capture, process, and store streaming data at any scale. On-Demand is a capacity mode for Kinesis Data Streams that automates capacity management, so that you never have to provision and manage the scaling of resources. It requires you to pay for throughput consumed rather than for provisioned resources, making it easier to balance costs and performance while providing the same availability, durability, and integrations. You can create a new On-Demand data stream or convert an existing data stream into the On-Demand mode with a single-click without requiring any code changes or downtime for your existing applications.

Amazon Connect now allows you to add third-party applications to the unified agent workspace, giving agents everything at their fingertips to deliver the best service to customers. You can use the built-in capabilities of Amazon Connect along with homegrown (e.g. insurance policy portal) or vendor-built applications (e.g. shipment order tracker) to consolidate information in a unified agent workspace experience, reducing context switching and related errors.

AWS Elemental MediaTailor now available in the Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm), Canada (Central), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), and South America (Sao Paulo) regions. You may now configure and operate MediaTailor using the console or API endpoints in these regions.

Amazon SageMaker now supports geospatial Processing jobs, making it easier for data scientists and ML engineers to run planetary-scale ML workloads. To run such large-scale workloads, customers need a flexible compute cluster that can scale from tens of instances to process a city block, to thousands of instances for planetary-scale processing. Manually managing a DIY compute cluster is slow and expensive. Additionally, building and maintaining a standardized environment to access, process, and visualize geospatial data is complex, time consuming, and expensive.

AWS Config supports 41 new resource types in advanced queries. Advanced queries within AWS Config is a feature that allows you to search the current configuration metadata and compliance state of your AWS resources based on their configuration properties. 

AWS Trusted Advisor adds a new operational excellence check category and integrates with AWS Config to deliver 64 new best practice checks across all categories. Trusted Advisor continuously evaluates your AWS environment using best practice checks in the categories of cost optimization, performance, resilience, security, operational excellence, and service limits, and recommends actions to remediate any deviations from best practices. The new best practice checks are powered by AWS Config managed rules which are predefined, customizable rules used to evaluate the compliance state of your AWS resources.

Starting today, Amazon EC2 C7i, M7i, R7i and R7iz bare metal instances are available. Amazon EC2 M7i, C7i, and R7i instances are powered by custom 4th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, —available only on AWS — which offer up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors utilized by other cloud providers. Amazon EC2 R7iz instances are the fastest Sapphire Rapids based instances in the cloud with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.9 GHz. 

AWS Resilience Hub adds assessment support for AWS Step Functions resources when assessing your application resilience. Resilience Hub provides a single place to define, validate, and track the resilience of your applications so that you can avoid unnecessary downtime caused by software, infrastructure, or operational disruptions. AWS Step Functions is a visual workflow service that helps developers use AWS services to build distributed applications, automate processes, orchestrate microservices, and create data and machine learning (ML) pipelines.

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