Today, AWS announced support for delegated backup administrators to use AWS Backup Audit Manager for creating and managing audit reports across accounts in AWS Organizations.

AWS announces the general availability of Amazon EC2 M7a instances. M7a instances, powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors (code-named Genoa) with a maximum frequency of 3.7 GHz,  deliver up to 50% higher performance compared to M6a instances.

Starting today, Amazon EC2 D3en instances, the latest generation of the dense HDD-storage instances, are available in the Europe (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions. D3en instances are ideal for workloads including distributed / clustered file systems, big data and analytics, and high capacity data lakes. With D3en instances, you can easily migrate from previous-generation D2 instances or on-premises infrastructure to a platform optimized for dense HDD storage workloads. 

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now supports AWS Graviton2-based M6g and R6g database instances in Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Jakarta, Melbourne, Osaka), Europe (Zurich), and Middle East (Bahrain) Regions. 

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now supports AWS Graviton2-based T4g database instances in Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Jakarta, Melbourne, Osaka), Europe (Zurich), and Middle East (Bahrain) Regions. T4g database instances provide a baseline level of CPU performance, with the ability to burst CPU usage for as long as required. Depending on the database engine, version, and workload, T4g database instances provide up to 36% better price performance over comparable x86-based T3 database instances.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Customfor Oracle now supports R5b and x2iedn instances. These instances are designed to deliver high EBS-optimized throughput and IOPS to enhance performance of Oracle database workloads that require high IO and that process large data sets in memory. Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle customers, with right-sizing, can migrate their database instances to smaller-sized R5b or x2iedn instances and still meet their workload throughput, IOPS, and memory requirements, saving on compute and database licensing costs.

Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) Performance Insights now helps customers analyze database performance metrics on demand to troubleshoot performance issues. It leverages machine learning models to help identify performance bottlenecks during the selected time period and gives advice on what to do next. This feature is available for Aurora MySQL, Aurora PostgreSQL and RDS for PostgreSQL engines.

AWS AppSync is a managed service that makes it easier to build scalable APIs that connect applications to data. With AppSync, API developers can write resolvers to define the business logic that connects their AppSync GraphQL and Pub/Sub APIs to data. Now, developers can use JavaScript to write their unit resolvers, pipeline resolvers, and AppSync functions that are executed on the AppSync JavaScript (APPSYNC_JS) runtime.

AWS still leads the cloud pack, says Synergy Research Group, with a Q2 market share of 32% – down from 34%  a year ago.  Amazon’s main rivals Microsoft and Google …

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One I recently noticed: Arduino highlighting that its Arduino Education kits are now fully compatible with ChromeBooks, “so you have the same functionality as you would have on any other device”.

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