Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, enabling organizations to provide relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it.

Amazon EventBridge Scheduler is now available in 18 additional regions: Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Canada (Central), Europe (Zurich), EU (Milan), Europe (Spain), EU (London), EU (Paris), Middle East (UAE), Middle East (Bahrain), South America (Sao Paulo), and US West (N. California).

AWS Compute Optimizer now supports Hard Disk Drive (HDD) volumes and io2 Block Express EBS volume types. You can start saving cost and improving performance on those EBS volumes with the optimization recommendations.

Amazon SageMaker Canvas now provides ready-to-use models so you can generate insights from thousands of documents, images, and lines of text in minutes. Additionally, you can now create custom models to address natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision (CV) use cases. SageMaker Canvas is a visual interface that enables business analysts to generate accurate machine learning (ML) predictions on their own—without requiring any ML experience or having to write a single line of code. 

Amazon GuardDuty expands threat detection coverage to continuously monitor and profile Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) container runtime activity to identify malicious or suspicious behavior within container workloads. GuardDuty EKS Runtime Monitoring introduces a new lightweight, fully-managed security agent that monitors on-host operating system-level behavior, such as file access, process execution, and network connections. Once a potential threat is detected, GuardDuty generates a security finding that pinpoints the specific container, and includes details such as pod ID, image ID, EKS cluster tags, executable path, and process lineage. GuardDuty EKS Runtime monitoring includes over two dozen new detections at launch, which when combined with GuardDuty EKS Audit Log Monitoring, amounts to more than 50 detections that are tailored to identify threats to Amazon EKS deployments.

Today, AWS Site-to-Site VPN announces Tunnel Endpoint Lifecycle Control, a new capability that provides better visibility and control of your VPN tunnel maintenance updates.

Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon VPC Lattice, an application networking service that simplifies connecting, securing, and monitoring service-to-service communication. You can use Amazon VPC Lattice to facilitate cross-account and cross-VPC connectivity, as well as application layer load balancing for your workloads. Whether the underlying compute types are instances, containers, or serverless, with Amazon VPC Lattice developers can work with native integration on the compute platform of their choice.

AWS Blu Age Blu Insights, the automated refactor capability of AWS Mainframe Modernization service, is now accessible using single sign-on (SSO). As a result, users of the service no longer require dedicated credentials for AWS Blu Insights and benefit from a seamless authentication experience between AWS Management Console and AWS Blu Insights for service usage, monitoring, and billing. All AWS Blu Insights features like Codebase Analysis continue to be available at no additional charge, while the AWS Blu Insights Transformation Center is priced per line of code and duration as outlined on the service pricing page.

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a fully managed Prometheus-compatible service that monitors and provides alerts on containerized applications and infrastructure at scale. Prometheus is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation open source project for monitoring and alerting that is optimized for container environments such as Amazon EKS and Amazon ECS. With this release, customers can send up to 500M active metrics to a single workspace after filing a service limit increase request, and can create many workspaces per account, enabling the storage and analysis of billions of Prometheus metrics. To get started, customers can create an Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus workspace and increase their workspace active series limits by filing a service limit increase request in AWS Support Center or AWS Service Quotas .

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