Today, AWS CloudFormation has expanded the availability of StackSets to Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Spain), and Europe (Zurich) Regions. With this launch, customers can deploy their stack sets to and from these newly supported AWS Regions.

Amazon Cognito now offers a new console experience that makes it even easier for customers to manage Amazon Cognito identity pools and add federated sign in for customers’ applications to get access to AWS resources. Customers that wish to opt in to the new, streamlined experience can do so by navigating to the Amazon Cognito console.

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports the latest minor versions PostgreSQL 15.3, 14.8, 13.11, 12.15, and 11.20. We recommend you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of PostgreSQL, and to benefit from bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the PostgreSQL community. Please refer to the PostgreSQL community announcement for more details about the release.

Starting today, Amazon SageMaker JumpStart provides the capability to fine-tune a large language model, particularly a text generation model on a domain-specific data set. Customers can now fine-tune models with their custom data set to improve performance in specific domains. For example, this blog describes how to use domain adaption to fine tune a GPT-J 6B model on publicly available financial data from the Security and Exchange Commission so that the model can generate more relevant text for financial services use cases. Customers can fine-tune Foundation Models such as GPT-J 6B and GPT-J 6B FP16 models for domain adaptation on JumpStart inside Amazon SageMaker Studio through UI, and through SageMaker Python SDK.

AWS Compute Optimizer now supports external performance metrics from 4 observability partners: Datadog, Dynatrace, Instana, and New Relic in 5 additional regions – Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Middle East (Bahrain), Africa (Cape Town), and Europe (Milan). 

Today, AWS released new version 1.28 of AWS Copilot with support of a new Static Site pattern, that makes it easier to deploy single page web applications on AWS. AWS Copilot is a command-line interface (CLI) that makes it easier for customers to build, deploy, and operate containerized applications on AWS by providing common application architecture and infrastructure patterns, user-friendly operational workflows, and configuring deployment pipelines.

Amazon ElastiCache for Redis data tiering on Graviton2-based R6gd nodes now supports auto scaling to automatically adjust capacity to maintain steady and predictable performance at the lowest possible cost. You can automatically scale your cluster horizontally by adding or removing shards or replica nodes. ElastiCache for Redis data tiering uses AWS Application Auto Scaling to manage scaling and Amazon CloudWatch metrics to determine when it is time to scale up or down. 

Amazon Athena has updated its data source connectors with new optimizations that can improve performance and reduce cost when querying data that does not reside in Amazon S3. Available today, the updated connectors use dynamic filtering and new predicate push down optimizations to perform more operations in the underlying data source, rather than in Athena, which can reduce query processing time and reduce data scanned.

We’re pleased to announce the launch of AWS Glue 4.0 for the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. AWS Glue 4.0 is a new version of AWS Glue that accelerates data integration workloads in AWS. AWS Glue 4.0 upgrades the Spark engines to Apache Spark 3.3.0 and Python 3.10 . Glue 4.0 gives customers the latest Spark and Python releases so they can develop, run, and scale their data integration workloads and get insights faster.

Starting today, you can use AWS Shield Advanced in the AWS Europe (Zurich), Europe (Spain), Australia (Melbourne), and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Regions. AWS Shield Advanced is a managed application security service that safeguards applications running on AWS from distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Shield Advanced provides always-on detection and automatic inline mitigations that minimize application downtime and latency. Also, it provides protections against more sophisticated and larger attacks for your applications running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), Amazon CloudFront, AWS Global Accelerator, and Amazon Route 53. To learn more visit, the AWS Shield Advanced product page.