The Mountpoint for Amazon S3 Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver now supports Bottlerocket, a Linux-based operating system that is purpose-built for containers. With this integration, your Kubernetes applications benefit from Bottlerocket’s immutable root file system, low management overhead, and integration with AWS services, while achieving high aggregate throughput to read and write data in Amazon S3.

AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) now allows you to preview targets resources before you start an FIS experiment to verify that your experiment is properly configured. In addition to target preview, FIS APIs now also return the ARNs of experiments, experiment templates, and actions in the response so that you have the information you need to uniquely identify these resources.

You can now obtain an aggregated picture of the performance and health of your WorkSpaces instances using the Amazon CloudWatch Automatic dashboard. This enables WorkSpaces administrators to quickly start monitoring WorkSpaces metrics and identify issues and their potential causes. You can also use CloudWatch Automatic dashboard as a starting point and create your own custom dashboards to meet your monitoring needs.

Starting today, customers can use Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink in Canada West (Calgary) Region to build real-time stream processing applications. 

Anthropic’s Claude 3 Haiku foundation model is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock. The Claude 3 family of models (Claude 3 Opus, Claude 3 Sonnet, and Claude 3 Haiku) is the next generation of state-of-the-art models from Anthropic. Claude 3 Haiku is one of the most affordable and fastest options on the market for its intelligence category.

Amazon Neptune Analytics is now available in the AWS Europe (London) Region. Neptune Analytics is an analytics database engine that makes it faster for data scientists and application developers to get insights and find trends by analyzing graph data with tens of billions of connections in seconds. Neptune Analytics adds to existing Neptune tools and services such as Amazon Neptune Database, Amazon Neptune ML, and visualization tools . Neptune is a fast, reliable, and fully managed graph database service for building and running applications with highly connected datasets, such as knowledge graphs, fraud graphs, identity graphs, and security graphs. With Neptune Analytics, you can find insights in graph data up to 80x faster by analyzing your existing Neptune graph database or graph data from Amazon S3.

AWS CloudFormation improves its deployment experience to validate customer stack operation upfront for invalid resource property errors. Customers get early feedback that their stack operation will fail due to issues such as spelling errors in their template. With this launch, customers will be able to fail fast and minimize the steps required for a successful stack operation.

Today, we are excited to announce that DynamoDB local for Amazon DynamoDB upgrades to Jetty 12 and JDK 17. We recommend that you run the latest version of DynamoDB local to utilize the most recent updates and features of DynamoDB local for your development and testing use cases. 

Starting today, AWS Batch now supports a Batch Job Queue Blocked CloudWatch Event for jobs stuck in RUNNABLE state. Customers can automate actions using EventBridge to be able to take an action on these stuck jobs. Additionally, customers can configure jobStateTimeLimitActions parameter from the CreateJobQueue and UpdateJobQueue APIs to terminate the stuck job unblocking the jobs behind it within the queue. 

Amazon Cognito is now available in Europe (Zurich) Region. Amazon Cognito makes it easy to add authentication, authorization, and user management to your web and mobile apps. Amazon Cognito scales to millions of users and supports sign-in with social identity providers such as Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon, and enterprise identity providers via standards such as SAML 2.0 and OpenID Connect.