AWS DeepComposer is now generally available to all AWS customers, with exciting new feature additions. AWS DeepComposer gives developers a creative way to learn machine learning. Get hands-on, literally, with a musical keyboard and the latest machine learning techniques, designed to expand your ML skills. AWS DeepComposer includes tutorials, sample code, and training data that can be used to build generative AI models, all without having to write a single line of code.  

Starting today, Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM) for EBS Snapshots is available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Amazon DLM provides a simple, automated way to back up data stored on Amazon EBS volumes. With this feature, you no longer have to rely on custom scripts to create and manage your EBS volume backups.

AWS IoT Device Defender announces the General Availability (GA) of the Dimensions feature that enables customers to filter the metrics that Device Defender Detect evaluates by MQTT topic. Dimensions supports the following cloud-side metrics: number of messages received, message byte size, number of messages sent, source IP, and number of authorization failures. 

Starting today, Amazon Redshift RA3.4xlarge nodes are generally available. These new node types support up to 64 TB of Redshift managed storage per node. They enable you to scale and pay for compute and storage independently, allowing you to size your cluster based only on your compute needs.

Amazon CloudWatch Contributor Insights for DynamoDB is now generally available. CloudWatch Contributor Insights for DynamoDB is a diagnostic tool that provides an at-a-glance view of your DynamoDB tables’ traffic trends and helps you identify your tables’ most frequently accessed keys (also known as hot keys). You can monitor each table’s item access patterns continuously and use CloudWatch Contributor Insights to generate graphs and visualizations of the table’s activity. Using this information, you can better understand the top drivers of your application’s traffic and respond appropriately to unsuccessful requests.  

AWS announces the availability of Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights, a fully integrated, interactive, and pay-as-you-go log analytics service for CloudWatch in AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. CloudWatch Logs Insights enables you to explore, analyze, and visualize your logs instantly, allowing you to troubleshoot operational problems with ease. With Logs Insights, you only pay for the queries you run. Logs Insights scales with your log volume and query complexity giving you answers in seconds. In addition, you can publish log-based metrics, create alarms, and correlate logs and metrics together in CloudWatch Dashboards for complete operational visibility.  

Amazon CloudWatch Contributor Insights for DynamoDB is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. CloudWatch Contributor Insights for DynamoDB is a diagnostic tool that provides an at-a-glance view of your DynamoDB tables’ traffic trends and helps you identify your tables’ most frequently accessed keys (also known as hot keys). You can monitor each table’s item access patterns continuously and use CloudWatch Contributor Insights to generate graphs and visualizations of the table’s activity. Using this information, you can better understand the top drivers of your application’s traffic and respond appropriately to unsuccessful requests.

Starting today, AWS WAF and AWS Shield Advanced are available in two new regions: Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Middle East (Bahrain). 

Customers can now receive and view notifications for AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy, and/or AWS CodePipeline directly in Slack with a few clicks in the AWS console. This includes notifications such as CodeBuild build completions, CodeCommit source changes, completed CodeDeploy deployments, and successful CodePipeline executions.

Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels is a feature of Amazon Rekognition, that allows customers with no machine learning (ML) expertise, to build their own ML-based image analysis capabilities to identify the unique objects and scenes that are relevant to their business need.