Starting today, the new EC2 High Memory instances with 6TB, 9TB, and 12TB of memory (u-6tb1.56xlarge, u-6tb1.112xlarge, u-9tb1.112xlarge, and u-12tb1.112xlarge) are available for usage with On-Demand (OD) and Savings Plan purchase options. This launch gives customers greater flexibility for instance usage and procurement. Customers can choose from two instances with 6TB of memory – u-6tb1.56xlarge and u-6tb1.112xlarge – both offering 100Gbps network and 38Gbps EBS bandwidth, and with 224 vCPUs and 448 vCPUs, respectively. These new instances provide additional flexibility for customers with memory-bound workloads and helps further optimize workload price/performance. The 9TB and 12TB instances offer 448 vCPUs, 100Gbps network and 38Gbps EBS bandwidth. 

Machine Downtime Monitor on AWS is a new solution that provides a dashboard to industrial customers to help them monitor the health of factory floor equipment, which enables easier identification of machine breakdowns and quicker response, improving asset availability. This solution offers an intuitive interface that allows non-technical users to easily configure machines and get up and running quickly. It also empowers production personnel to respond proactively to production interruptions and maximize asset availability.

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL patch releases are now available for customers using Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition. To review the changes, visit the documentation history  and for detailed release notes, visit our version documentation . You can apply the new patch version in the AWS Management Console, via the AWS CLI, or via the RDS API. For detailed instructions, please see our technical documentation .

We are happy to announce that all AWS Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) endpoints have been updated to only accept a minimum of Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.2 connections. This update ensures that our customers who run regulated workloads can meet FedRAMP compliance requirements that mandate a minimum of TLS 1.2 encryption for data in transit. Attempts to connect to AWS FIPS endpoints using TLS 1.0 or TLS 1.1 will result in an HTTP response 503 Service Unavailable error.

The AWS Solutions team updated Improving Forecast Accuracy with Machine Learning, an AWS Solutions Implementation that helps customers easily generate, test, compare, and iterate on forecasts. The solution allows customers to automatically trigger a workflow to automate the creation of forecasts in Amazon Forecast based on user-provided configuration. The solution then provides automatic visualization using Amazon QuickSight (and optionally Amazon SageMaker Jupyter Notebooks) providing a quick, easy, drag-and-drop interface that displays time series input and forecasted output for any input time series data.

Amazon CloudWatch now supports composite alarms in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. With Amazon CloudWatch composite alarms, you can combine multiple alarms to reduce alarm noise and focus on critical operational issues. You can easily combine multiple alarms together into alarm hierarchies that only trigger once when multiple alarms fire at the same time. This helps you stay focused on finding the root cause of operational issues to reduce system and application downtime.
 

Amazon Athena users can now query databases and tables across AWS accounts through built-in support for AWS Glue Data Catalogs in other AWS accounts. Customers need a central data catalog to enable analysts and data scientists to access their data lake without the complexity of replicating catalog metadata in individual AWS accounts. Today’s release makes it easier to connect AWS Glue Data Catalogs in other accounts using the Athena console or API.

Amazon Connect now allows customers to subscribe to a near real-time stream of contact (voice calls, chat, and task) events (e.g., call is queued) in your Amazon Connect contact center. These events include when a voice call, chat, or task is initiated, queued to be assigned to an agent, connected to an agent, transferred to another agent or queue, and disconnected. Contact events can be used to create analytics dashboards to monitor and track contact activity, integrate into workforce management (WFM) solutions to better understand contact center performance, or to integrate applications that react to events (e.g., call disconnected) in real-time. Amazon Connect contact events are published via Amazon EventBridge, and can be set up in a couple of clicks by going to the Amazon EventBridge AWS console and creating a new rule.

You can now use Change Calendar to prevent desired-state configuration updates made usingState Manager. Change Calendar and State Manager are both capabilities of AWS SystemsManager. With Change Calendar, you can schedule calendar events to control when changescan be made to your AWS resources. You can use State Manager to define, enforce, and reporton desired state configuration compliance for your infrastructure. With this new integration,you can help ensure that your desired-state configuration updates do not conflict withimportant business activities, such as sales events or new product launches.