AWS CloudFormation improved its stack creation speed by up to 40% and introduced a new stack creation event, CONFIGURATION_COMPLETE. This event is available at both the stack and resource levels.

Amazon 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.

Two new minor versions of Microsoft SQL Server are now available on Amazon RDS for SQL Server, 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.

Amazon SageMaker Canvas now extends its Model Registry integration to Timeseries forecasting models and SageMaker JumpStart-powered Fine-tuned foundation models. With a single click, you can register these ML models built in Amazon SageMaker Canvas with the SageMaker Model registry , simplifying their deployment to production environments. This enhancement expands the Model registry integration to all problem types supported in Canvas, including regression/classification tabular models, and CV/NLP models. By streamlining the operationalization of ML models in production, Canvas, a no-code tool to build ML models and generate predictions, continues to democratize ML.

AWS ParallelCluster 3.9.0 is now generally available. Key features of this release include support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 (RHEL9), Rocky Linux 9 and the ability to resize a cluster’s compute capacity without stopping it. Other important features in this release include:

• Support for mounting and unmounting AWS file systems without stopping the cluster.
• Ability to disable sudo privileges for the default cluster user.
• An updated Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) Installer, v1.30, that supports using Open MPI 5 with your applications.

AWS Backup announces support for restore testing of Amazon EBS Snapshots Archive. AWS Backup restore testing helps perform automated and periodic restore tests of supported AWS resources that have been backed up. AWS Backup is a fully managed service that centralizes and automates data protection across AWS services and hybrid workloads. With this launch, AWS Backup customers can test recovery readiness to prepare for possible data loss events and to measure duration times for restore jobs of Amazon EBS Snapshots Archive to satisfy compliance or regulatory requirements.

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