AWS Graviton3-based M7g instances are now generally available for use with new provisioned Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) clusters. MSK provisioned clusters running on M7g instances deliver up to 24% price/ performance improvement, up to 29% higher write and read throughput, and up to 27% reduction in CPU usage over comparable MSK clusters running on M5 instances. 

Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS B2B Data Interchange, a fully managed service for automating the transformation of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) documents into common data representations such as JSON and XML at scale and with pay-as-you-go pricing. Customers across verticals such as manufacturing, retail, healthcare, and more can now reduce the time, complexity, and cost associated with preparing and integrating EDI data into their business applications and purpose-built data lakes.

Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Db2, which makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale Db2 databases in the cloud. Amazon RDS manages time-consuming database administration tasks, such as provisioning, patching, backups, recovery, failure detection, and repair, so you can focus on applications and business.

Today, AWS Backup announces the general availability of restore testing, a new capability within AWS Backup that helps perform automated and periodic restore tests of supported AWS resources that have been backed up. AWS Backup is a fully managed service that centralizes and automates data protection across AWS services and hybrid workloads. With this launch, AWS Backup customers can test recovery readiness to prepare for possible data loss events and to measure duration times for restore jobs to satisfy compliance or regulatory requirements.

Amazon EFS Replication now supports failback, making it easier and more cost-effective to synchronize changes between EFS file systems after Disaster Recovery (DR) and other failover events.

Starting today, the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) and Python SDK automatically use the AWS Common Runtime (CRT) to accelerate data transfer between Amazon S3 and Amazon EC2 Trn1, P4d, and P5 instances. The AWS CRT implements Amazon S3’s performance best practices for request parallelization, automatic retry, DNS load balancing, and more to deliver high data transfer rates between Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3. As a result, machine learning training jobs now download training data from Amazon S3 up to 3x faster and upload model checkpoints to Amazon S3 up to 5x faster, which accelerates total training times.

AWS Mainframe Modernization is now available with NTT DATA UniKix technology for replatforming and running mainframe applications on the AWS Cloud. The new capability broadens the replatform provider choices available to customers for mainframe application modernization.

Today, Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) announces new metadata enrichment for findings aggregated in AWS Security Hub that allow you to better contextualize, prioritize, and take action on your security findings. This enrichment adds resource tags, a new AWS application tag, and account name information to every finding ingested into Security Hub, including findings from AWS security services such as Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon Inspector, and AWS IAM Access Analyzer, as well as a large and growing list of AWS Partner Network (APN) solutions.

Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) announces an increased quota for a high throughput mode for FIFO queues, allowing you to process up to 70,000 transactions per second per API action in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Ireland) regions. Amazon SQS is a fully managed message queuing service that enables you to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications. Amazon SQS offers two types of queues, standard and FIFO . FIFO queues process messages only once, in the exact order that they are sent. Now, customers using high throughput mode FIFO queues can send and receive messages at a higher rate.

Virtual SPARC environments are now available on the AWS Cloud. With this new capability, customers can migrate and rehost applications running on legacy SPARC systems. The lift-and-shift migration of applications from SPARC machines to virtual SPARC-compatible execution environments on the AWS Cloud enables sunsetting of legacy hardware without any change to the applications, and with minimal recertification or retraining. Once on the AWS Cloud, the applications can benefit from elastic on-demand resources with flexible pay-as-you-go pricing. Such rehosting of applications on virtual SPARC environments can help accelerate modernization timelines, reduce operating costs, and improve resilience.