Amazon EMR Serverless is a serverless option that helps data analysts and engineers to run open-source big data analytics frameworks such as Apache Spark and Apache Hive without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers. We are happy to announce that starting today, you can set default configurations at the application level, allowing you to maintain consistent settings for all Spark and Hive jobs submitted under the same application.

Today, Amazon DynamoDB announces the general availability of incremental export to S3, that allows you to export only the data that has changed within a specified time interval. With incremental exports, you can now export data that was inserted, updated or deleted, in small increments. You can export changed data ranging from a few megabytes to terabytes with a few clicks in the AWS Management Console, an API call, or the AWS Command Line Interface. Choose a DynamoDB table that has point-in-time-recovery enabled, specify an export time period for which you want incremental data, choose your target Amazon S3 bucket, and export.

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now supports a new permission to provide agents with access to only the contacts that they handled, within the contact search page in the Amazon Connect UI. Today, Amazon Connect has permissions that enable contact center managers to access contacts handled by agents in their teams and evaluate agent performance. With this launch, agents can securely search for their own contacts and review their recordings and transcripts alongside performance evaluations submitted by managers.

AWS Glue now supports custom icons for custom visual transforms. Custom visual transforms let customers define, reuse, and share business-specific ETL logic among their teams. Reusable transforms increase consistency between teams and help keep jobs up to date by minimizing duplicate effort and code. 

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Hpc7g instances are available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Ireland), and the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. Amazon EC2 Hpc7g instances are powered by AWS Graviton processors, which are custom Arm-based processors designed by AWS.

Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc launches expanded resource support for AWS Application Composer, from 13 to all 1000+ resources supported by AWS CloudFormation. This launch allows you to drag any resource required for your use case onto an interactive diagram-like canvas where an editor provides auto completion and validation as you configure each service. With AWS Application Composer, you can focus on the high-level architecture of your application while the canvas assists with configuration and maintains deployment-ready infrastructure as code definitions. 

AWS Verified Access, a service that helps you provide secure VPN-less access to your corporate applications, now offers Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 validated endpoints to help you protect sensitive information. These endpoints terminate Transport Layer Security (TLS) sessions using a FIPS 140-2 validated cryptographic software module, making it easier for you to use Verified Access for regulated workloads. Companies contracting with the US and Canadian federal governments can now meet the FIPS security requirement to encrypt sensitive data in these Regions. 

AWS HealthOmics is now available in Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. AWS HealthOmics is a fully managed service that helps healthcare and life science organizations build at-scale to store, query, and analyze genomic, transcriptomic, and other omics data. By removing the undifferentiated heavy lifting, customers can generate deeper insights from omics data to improve health and advance scientific discoveries.

Kubernetes 1.28 introduced several new features and bug fixes, and AWS is excited to announce that you can now use Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro to run Kubernetes version 1.28. Starting today, you can create new 1.28 clusters or upgrade your existing clusters to 1.28 using the Amazon EKS console, the eksctl command line interface, or through an infrastructure-as-code tool.

Today, AWS Lake Formation announces the general availability of Hybrid Access Mode for AWS Glue Data Catalog. This feature provides you the flexibility to selectively enable Lake Formation for databases and tables in your AWS Glue Data Catalog. Before this launch, you had to move all existing users of a table into Lake Formation in a single step, which required a certain amount of coordination among data owners and data consumers. With the Hybrid Access Mode, you now have an incremental path wherein you can enable Lake Formation for a specific set of users without interrupting other existing users or workloads.