Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Db2 allows customers to set up, operate, and scale Db2 database in the cloud with just a few clicks. RDS for Db2 now supports up to 5,000 users for database authentication.

Today, AWS made available on GitHub for public comment, the Open Job Description specification for describing portable render jobs. Open Job Description (OpenJD), lets you describe the work instructions and asset locations for visual compute render farm jobs in a way that is extensible and open to help you create interoperable pipelines. OpenJD specifies a structured format that is human and machine readable for ease of development. OpenJD is designed to be extensible for new types of visual compute workflows and applications. This open specification is made available for public comment under a Creative Commons (CC) license.

Amazon SageMaker is pleased to announce support for M7i, C7i, and R7i instance types for real-time and asynchronous inference.

AWS Backup now allows you to protect your Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP FlexGroup volumes. Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is a fully managed AWS service that allows you to run NetApp ONTAP file systems in the AWS Cloud. Previously, you could only protect your FlexVol volumes using AWS Backup. AWS Backup now supports backing up and restoring Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP FlexVol and FlexGroup volumes. You can now use AWS Backup’s policy-based capabilities to centralize and automate data protection of Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP FlexGroup volumes alongside other supported AWS services (spanning compute, storage, and databases) and hybrid workloads.

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R7i instances are available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, Tokyo) regions, Australia (Sydney) Region, Europe (Frankfurt, London) regions, Canada (Central) Region and US West (Northern California) Region.

Today, AWS Marketplace announced the general availability of a new Amazon QuickSight dashboard, displaying customer’s product usage for AWS Marketplace sellers. Sellers can now access the usage dashboard under the Insights > Sales operations tab of AWS Marketplace Management Portal (AMMP). Previously, sellers could only access their customer’s SaaS and Server product usage with the legacy Daily business report Section 1: Usage by instance type; and programmatically by Commerce Analytics Service (CAS). 

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C6in instances are available in AWS Region Europe (Spain). These sixth-generation network optimized instances, powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and built on the AWS Nitro System, deliver up to 200Gbps network bandwidth, 2x more network bandwidth and up to 2x higher packet-processing performance over comparable fifth-generation instances. 

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and AWS Fargate now integrate with Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), allowing you to easily provision and attach EBS volumes to Amazon ECS tasks running on both AWS Fargate and Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) using Amazon ECS APIs. This capability makes it easier for you to deploy storage and data intensive applications such as ETL jobs, media transcoding, and ML inference workloads using serverless containers.

Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached now supports Memcached version 1.6.22 when using the node-based deployment option. With this release, you can now design your own ElastiCache for Memcached cluster using Memcached version 1.6.22. ElastiCache Serverless for Memcached already supports Memcached version 1.6.22.

Amazon EventBridge Event Bus now supports AWS AppSync as a target of an Event Bus, which enables you to stream real-time updates such as sport scores and stock updates from your own applications to frontend applications including mobile and desktop. With AppSync as a target, clients can now subscribe to mutations or changes in data and AppSync will notify those subscribers of that data change on successful completion of the mutation.