Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the general availability of AWS Ground Station in US West (Alaska) region. This is the 12th AWS Ground Station antenna location connected to the AWS Global Network. Global expansion to Alaska enables increased opportunities for satellite operators to connect with their satellites and process their space workloads. Governments, businesses, and universities can benefit from more timely satellite data to make data-driven decisions.

Today, AWS announces a major version release of the Amazon SageMaker model parallel library (SMP), which now is compatible with PyTorch Fully Sharded Data Parallel (FSDP) APIs and can accelerate deep learning model training by up to 20%. SMP enables you to accelerate training of large models with billions of parameters by automatically partitioning and distributing the model across multiple accelerators and compute instances. You can get started with SMP in minutes and speed up your existing PyTorch FSDP training scripts with just a few lines of code.

Starting today, you can bring your public IPv4 addresses to AWS, in Los Angeles, Phoenix and Dallas AWS Local Zones using Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) . You can provision your public IPv4 addresses in these Local Zones and advertise them to the internet using BYOIP.

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is now available in the AWS Canada West (Calgary) region. Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is the easiest way to load streaming data into data stores and analytics tools. You can capture, transform, and deliver streaming data into Amazon S3, Amazon OpenSearch Service, Amazon Redshift, and third party analytics applications such as Splunk and Datadog, enabling real-time analytics use cases. 

Amazon CodeCatalyst users can now securely access their Dev Environments using SSH over AWS Systems Manager Session Manager. This feature allows users to perform actions on Dev Environments such as port forwarding, and uploading and downloading files that were not possible while using AWS Cloud9. CodeCatalyst is a unified software development service that makes it faster to build and deliver software on AWS. Dev Environments, a feature of CodeCatalyst, are preconfigured, scalable cloud development environments accessible from popular IDEs.

AWS Marketplace launched BatchDescribeEntities API for users of Catalog API. With this launch, private marketplace admins and sellers, including ISVs, Channel Partners, and Aggregators can get detailed information on multiple entities at once, thereby improving ease of integration, decreasing latency and increasing performance of the applications built on top of Catalog APIs.

Amazon Connect now provides granular access controls using resource tags configured for prompts in the Connect admin website. Prompts are audio files like on-hold music that can be customized and configured to play within call flows. For example, you can now tag celebrity prompts with Department:Insurance, and then only let administrators from your insurance line of business access those prompts.

Amazon Connect now provides granular access controls using resource tags configured for hours of operation in the Connect admin website. For example, you can tag hours of operation with Division:HumanResources, and then only let HR administrators see and edit those work hours.

AWS DataSync is now available in the Canada West (Calgary) region. You can now use DataSync to copy data between on-premises, edge, or other cloud storage and AWS Storage services, as well as between AWS Storage services in the Canada West (Calgary) region.

Today, Amazon EKS announces the general availability of upgrade insights, a new feature that surfaces insights about issues that may impact your ability to successfully upgrade a cluster to newer versions of Kubernetes. Upgrade insights are built upon best practices learned by EKS over the course of managing hundreds of thousands of Kubernetes clusters. You can use the EKS APIs and Console to check for upgrade readiness issues detected in your environment at any time against all future Kubernetes versions supported by EKS.