The AWS SDK for SAP ABAP is now generally available in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD.

Today we’re excited to announce the release of the AWS SimSpace Weaver SDK for Python to make it easier for simulation developers building Python based simulation projects to integrate with SimSpace Weaver.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Optimized Writes now supports r5 database (DB) instances. With Amazon RDS Optimized Writes you can improve the write throughput for Amazon RDS for MySQL and MariaDB workloads by up to 2x at no additional cost. This is especially useful for write-intensive database workloads, commonly found in applications such as digital payments, financial trading, and online gaming.

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) has introduced additional usage metrics in Amazon CloudWatch for the following service quotas: ‘Topics per Account’, ‘Filter Policies per Account’, and ‘Pending Subscriptions per Account’. Under the ‘AWS/Usage’ namespace, you can now view the ‘ApproximateNumberOfTopics’, ‘ApproximateNumberOfFilterPolicies’, and ‘ApproximateNumberOfPendingSubscriptions’ metrics to monitor your usage of these Amazon SNS resources. Moreover, using AWS Service Quotas , you can also view your utilization metrics per quota, and create Amazon CloudWatch alarms to notify you when your utilization of a given quota exceeds your configurable threshold. This enables you to more precisely adapt your utilization of Amazon SNS, based on your applied quotas.

Today, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) launched a new deliverability feature that helps customers troubleshoot individual email delivery problems, confirm delivery of critical messages, and identify engaged recipients on a granular, single email basis. Senders can investigate trends in delivery performance and see delivery and engagement status for each email sent through SES. This makes it even easier for customers to manage and optimize their delivery and campaign performance using Virtual Deliverability Manager.

Starting today, AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory (AWS Managed Microsoft AD) and AD Connector are integrating with AWS Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA) to issue certificates for domain-joined objects that use Active Directory (AD) auto-enrollment. You can use a fully managed AWS Private CA drop-in replacement for your self-managed enterprise CAs without the need to deploy, patch, or update local agents or proxy servers. This also enables you to accelerate the migration of AD-aware workloads to AWS. 

Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion now allows you to ingest streaming data from Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK), enabling you to seamlessly index the data from Amazon MSK in Amazon OpenSearch Service managed domains or serverless collections without the need for any third-party data connectors. With this integration, you can now use Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion to perform near- real-time aggregations, sampling and anomaly detection on data ingested from Amazon MSK, helping you to build efficient data pipelines to power your complex observability use cases.

Today, AWS announces the launch of Amazon CodeCatalyst in the Europe (Ireland) region. CodeCatalyst provides everything you need to start planning, coding, building, testing, and deploying applications on AWS with a streamlined, integrated experience. With CodeCatalyst, you can spend more time developing application features and less time setting up project tools, creating and managing continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, provisioning and configuring development and deployment environments, and onboarding team members to their projects. CodeCatalyst is also available in the US West (Oregon) AWS Region and can deploy workloads to any public region worldwide.

Today, we’re excited to announce console enhancements on AWS Network Firewall console pages to improve user experience. AWS Network Firewall console pages are completely revamped using Cloudscape Design System guidelines, an open source solution for building intuitive, engaging, and inclusive user experiences at scale.

AWS Lambda functions powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are now available in 6 additional regions – Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), Israel (Tel Aviv) and Middle East (UAE). With up to 34% better price-performance, functions running on AWS Graviton are ideal for powering mission critical Serverless applications.