Amazon EventBridge introduces new capabilities that make it simpler to build rules. Amazon EventBridge now supports generating CloudFormation templates from the rules and buses console pages. CloudFormation templates help provision and manage the configuration of event buses and rules, and you can now export your existing configurations in the console directly to a CloudFormation template. Simply select an existing rule in the console, pick JSON or YAML, and click the download button to export the configuration to a CloudFormation template. The CloudFormation template will contain the rule and target(s) of the rule. You can also select an event bus, choose whether or not to include existing rules on that bus, and download a CloudFormation template containing information for the bus, rules (if included), and targets. This makes it easier to generate CloudFormation templates for more complex rules and targets, and simplifies configuring rules and buses in different environments. 

Today, Amazon EMR has announced support for long running fault-tolerant SQL queries on Trino engine (Project Tardigrade ) with checkpointing in Amazon S3 or HDFS for fault-tolerance. Project Tardigrade aims to improve the user experience of long running, resource intensive queries on Trino, when used for ETL style workloads. Project Tardigrade uses Amazon S3 for checkpointing buffered intermediate data. With Amazon EMR 6.9 release, we are also adding checkpointing on HDFS for performance sensitive and long running SQL workloads.

Amazon S3 improves performance of queries running on Trino by up to 9x when using Amazon S3 Select . Trino is an open source SQL query engine used to run interactive analytics on data stored in Amazon S3. With S3 Select, you “push down” the computational work to filter your S3 data instead of returning the entire object. By using Trino with S3 Select, you retrieve only a subset of data from an object, reducing the amount of data returned and accelerating query performance.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for Oracle now supports customization of the Oracle Database installation, including the file system paths for Oracle Base and Oracle Home, and identities of the operating system user and group associated with the database. With today’s release, you can further customize your Oracle Database installation on RDS Custom for Oracle to suit the needs of your applications and conform to your organization’s standardized deployment practices. 

AWS Backup now offers a simple, cost-effective, and SAP-certified application-consistent backup and restore solution for SAP HANA databases running on Amazon EC2. With this launch, you can centrally automate backup and restore of your SAP HANA application data in addition to the currently supported AWS services . Using AWS Backup’s seamless integration with AWS Organizations, you can centrally create and manage immutable backups of SAP HANA databases across all your accounts, help protect your data from inadvertent or malicious actions, and restore the data.

AWS Service Catalog customers can now create AWS Service Catalog products that are synced to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates that are managed in external repositories such as GitHub, GitHub Enterprise, or Bitbucket.

Today, AWS Marketplace announced the Preview of two Amazon QuickSight dashboards for AWS Marketplace sellers. Sellers can now access the billed revenue dashboard and collections & disbursements dashboard from the Insights tab of AWS Marketplace Management Portal (AMMP). Previously, sellers could access their business data via downloadable CSV reports on AMMP. Now, the sellers can view, analyze and track key trends and metrics in a visualized manner on QuickSight dashboards on AMMP.

AWS Secrets Manager now supports the ability to rotate secrets as often as every four hours, while providing the same managed rotation experience. With this launch, you can now use Secrets Manager to automate the rotation of credentials and access tokens that need to be refreshed more than once per day. This enables greater flexibility for common developer workflows through a single managed service. Additionally, you can continue to utilize integrations with AWS Config and AWS CloudTrail to manage and monitor your secret rotation configurations in accordance with your organization’s security and compliance requirements. Support for secrets rotation as often as every four hours is provided at no additional cost

Amazon CloudFront now supports continuous deployment, a new feature to test and validate the configuration changes with a portion of live traffic before deploying changes to all viewers.

It has just dawned me that I may have scuppered the Russian Army, Ed confides to his diary. Some years ago the MoD asked the Science and Technology Ministry, over which I presided at the time as Secretary of State, to evaluate some helmets which had been ordered for our troops. It soon became clear …

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