Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, a service that provides fully managed shared storage built on NetApp’s popular ONTAP file system, now supports using NetApp System Manager to manage your file systems. 

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is a scalable, serverless, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra-compatible database service that offers 99.999% availability. Today, Amazon Keyspaces added query auditing support for Keyspaces Data Manipulation Language (DML) operations with AWS CloudTrail. 

You can now use Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) FIFO topics in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions in combination with Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) FIFO queues, to build applications that require messages to be sent and processed in a strict sequence and without duplicates. SNS FIFO is intended for customer use cases where it is critical to maintain the consistency in processing messages across multiple independent services in a strictly ordered manner. Example use cases include bank transaction logging, stock tickers, flight trackers, news broadcasting, inventory management, vote tabulation, and price updates.

You can now use Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints for hybrid cloud configurations in the Canada West (Calgary) Region.

Starting today, you can enable DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) on Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints to encrypt DNS queries that pass through the endpoints and improve privacy by minimizing the visibility of the information exchanged through the queries. DoH is a protocol that protects DNS traffic by passing the queries through an encrypted HTTPS session. DoH can help enhance privacy by protecting DNS queries from eavesdropping and manipulation from unauthorized users.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the general availability of AWS Ground Station in US West (Alaska) region. This is the 12th AWS Ground Station antenna location connected to the AWS Global Network. Global expansion to Alaska enables increased opportunities for satellite operators to connect with their satellites and process their space workloads. Governments, businesses, and universities can benefit from more timely satellite data to make data-driven decisions.

Today, AWS announces a major version release of the Amazon SageMaker model parallel library (SMP), which now is compatible with PyTorch Fully Sharded Data Parallel (FSDP) APIs and can accelerate deep learning model training by up to 20%. SMP enables you to accelerate training of large models with billions of parameters by automatically partitioning and distributing the model across multiple accelerators and compute instances. You can get started with SMP in minutes and speed up your existing PyTorch FSDP training scripts with just a few lines of code.

Starting today, you can bring your public IPv4 addresses to AWS, in Los Angeles, Phoenix and Dallas AWS Local Zones using Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) . You can provision your public IPv4 addresses in these Local Zones and advertise them to the internet using BYOIP.

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is now available in the AWS Canada West (Calgary) region. Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is the easiest way to load streaming data into data stores and analytics tools. You can capture, transform, and deliver streaming data into Amazon S3, Amazon OpenSearch Service, Amazon Redshift, and third party analytics applications such as Splunk and Datadog, enabling real-time analytics use cases. 

Amazon CodeCatalyst users can now securely access their Dev Environments using SSH over AWS Systems Manager Session Manager. This feature allows users to perform actions on Dev Environments such as port forwarding, and uploading and downloading files that were not possible while using AWS Cloud9. CodeCatalyst is a unified software development service that makes it faster to build and deliver software on AWS. Dev Environments, a feature of CodeCatalyst, are preconfigured, scalable cloud development environments accessible from popular IDEs.