Today, AWS Glue Studio announces a faster and embedded interactive data preview experience. With this launch you will be able to attach data preview with each source and transform node of your AWS Glue Studio Visual ETL authoring interface. The new interactive data preview experience starts a new Glue Data Preview session as you open your visual interface and enables you to preview multiple data sets with a single session.

Amazon Connect has reduced prices for Peru in US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) regions. This includes reductions of Peru Direct Inward Dial (DID) minutes by 25% from $0.0100/min to $0.0075/min, Toll Free (TFN) minutes by 37% from $0.1920/min to $0.1216min, and Outbound minutes by 55% from $0.0150/min to $0.0067/min.

Amazon Connect has added support for Representative numbers for businesses in South Korea. Amazon Connect supports all five tiers of representative numbers ranging from two concurrent calls for the smallest representative number up to 5000 concurrent calls for the large scale services. Representative numbers are available only in Asia Pacific (Seoul).

Amazon Connect has reduced outbound dialing rates across European countries in the Europe (Frankfurt) and Europe (London) regions. The new rates reflect an 8% reduction in calling to Austria at $0.0360/min, an 11% reduction to Denmark at $0.440/min, a 10% reduction to the Netherlands at $0.0380/min, a 10% reduction to Norway at $0.0800/min, and a 13% reduction to Switzerland at $0.1000/min.

Amazon RDS Proxy is a fully managed and a highly available database proxy for Amazon Aurora and RDS databases. RDS Proxy allows customers to gracefully scale applications by efficiently reusing database connections. For application using PostgreSQL Extended Query Protocol , RDS Proxy can now reuse database connections, resulting in efficient use of database resources.

AWS Lambda now supports Amazon Linux 2023 as both a managed runtime and a container base image. This runtime has a significantly smaller deployment footprint than Amazon Linux 2 runtimes, and provides updated versions of common libraries such as glibc. The Amazon Linux 2023 runtime will also be used as the basis for future Lambda runtime releases, such as Node.js 20, Python 3.12, Java 21, and .NET 8. For more information, see our blog post at Amazon Linux 2023 runtime now available on AWS Lambda .

Amazon EventBridge now supports 22 additional Amazon CloudWatch metrics that enable you to monitor the performance of your event buses and proactively identify when you may need to increase your service quotas. Publishing events to an event bus now includes metrics such as API latency, event payload size, as well as number of successful, failed, and throttled events. For invocations, where EventBridge delivers an event to a target, such as AWS Lambda, new metrics provide visibility into retries, throttling, and end-to-end latency including the time it takes for a target to respond. These metrics provide deeper insight into your event-driven applications, and allow you to quickly identify and resolve issues as they arise.

Amazon Connect launches a new prompts configuration UI with an enhanced user experience and AWS CloudTrail coverage. Prompts are audio files like on-hold music that can be customized and configured to play within call flows. Now when you add, update or delete a prompt from the Amazon Connect admin website, a record of that activity is available in AWS CloudTrail for visibility, reporting, and compliance. For example, you may notice a discrepancy in the IVR prompt that customers hear when they call your support line. To investigate, you can leverage AWS CloudTrail to answer questions such as, “who saved this recording?” and, “when was this prompt changed?” To learn more about the new prompts page, see the Amazon Connect Administrator Guide and the AWS CloudTrail Documentation .

AWS Control Tower customers can now configure tags for the controls that they have enabled in AWS Control Tower. Customers can add, remove, or list tags for the controls in the AWS Control Tower console or by using the tagging APIs. Tags can help you manage, identify, organize, search for, and filter resources. You can create tags to categorize resources by purpose, owner, environment, or other criteria. AWS Control Tower now supports the following tagging APIs:

• TagResource – This API call adds tags to controls enabled in AWS Control Tower.
• UntagResource – This API call removes tags from controls enabled in AWS Control Tower.
• ListTagsForResource – This API call returns tags for controls enabled in AWS Control Tower.

With the new security dashboard, you can now enable, monitor, and manage common security protections for your web applications directly from the Amazon CloudFront console. Built for customers that need unified management of their application delivery and security, the interactive security dashboard brings AWS WAF visibility and controls directly to your CloudFront distribution, including visibility into your application’s top security trends, allowed and blocked traffic, and bot activity. Investigative tools like a visual log analyzer and built-in blocking controls make it easy to isolate traffic patterns and block traffic without querying logs or writing security rules.