Developers can now access Amazon CloudWatch Logs within Visual Studio using the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio. Directly from the IDE, it is now possible to search and filter log groups, log streams, and events. Additionally, log groups can be accessed from their associated resources, and log events can be downloaded to a file.

The AWS Snowcone solid state drive (SSD) device is now available in the AWS Europe (Paris) Region, adding to our growing list of Regions already offering Snowcone SSD, including AWS US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), US West (N. California) Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Canada (Central), and South America (São Paulo).

Starting today, Amazon AppStream 2.0 introduces support for streaming over UDP, when using the Windows native client. Amazon AppStream 2.0 is a fully managed service that provides non-persistent desktops, and application streaming products to end-users. Previously, you were able to stream over TCP via Windows native client. With your end users now working from home or in different countries compared to your corporate offices, they may operate in sub-optimal network conditions you are unable to control. These network conditions can impact your end users experience and productivity. With UDP streaming your end users will experience a more responsive streaming quality in sub-optimal network conditions, with higher round trip latency.

Amazon QuickSight now enables authors to setup rolling date to dynamically generate dashboard for end users. The rolling date functionality is now available for both date & time range filters and datetime parameters. Users will be able to set up rolling rules to fetch a date, such as today, yesterday, or different combinations of (start/end) of (this/previous/next) (year/quarter/month/week/day) and dynamically update the dashboard content based on when the dashboard is loaded. This feature brings flexibility and simplicity for users to build time-related dashboards. Without rolling date, users have to set up a static date and manually change it as needed. For further details, visit here .

Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location in Dublin, Ireland. AWS customers in Ireland and across Europe can now establish network connections from their premises to AWS in the Servecentric, Blanchardstown Corporate Park data center to gain high-performance, secure access to all public AWS Regions (except Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD). This is the third Direct Connect location in the Dublin metropolitan area.

Starting today, you can now bring your own development environment in a custom image to RStudio on Amazon SageMaker . RStudio on SageMaker is the industry’s first fully managed RStudio Workbench in cloud. You can quickly launch the familiar RStudio Integrated Development Environment (IDE), dial up and down the underlying compute resources without interrupting your work, and even switch to programming using Python on Amazon SageMaker Studio Notebooks . All your work, including code, datasets, repositories, and other artifacts are synchronized between the two environments. You can bring your current RStudio license to Amazon SageMaker at no additional charge to quickly get started.

AWS Backup Audit Manager adds a new control that you can use to audit and report on the recovery point objective (RPO) of your backups. With this launch, you can now specify your organizational recovery point objectives for your resources and evaluate whether your recovery points are in compliance.

Amazon MemoryDB for Redis is now a Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliant service. MemoryDB is a fully managed, Redis-compatible, in-memory database that provides low latency, high throughput, and durability at any scale.

The AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) announces general availability of AWS SAM Accelerate. The AWS SAM Command Line Interface (CLI) is a developer tool that makes it easier to build, locally test, package, and deploy serverless applications. AWS SAM Accelerate is a new capability of AWS SAM CLI that makes it easier for developers to test code changes against a cloud-based environment, reducing the time from local iteration to production-readiness.

Patch Manager, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, now helps you automate patches deployments for instances running Windows Server 2022, Rocky Linux versions 8.4 and 8.5, CentOS Stream 8, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) versions 8.4 and 8.5, giving you more patching options for your nodes. Patch Manager helps you automate the process of patching nodes with security related and other types of updates. Patch Manager also helps you automate patches deployments for Linux instances running Windows Server, RHEL, Ubuntu Server, Amazon Linux, Amazon Linux 2, CentOS, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES).