Today, Amazon QuickSight is announcing the general availability of a new connector for QuickSight that will enable customers to natively connect to Databricks. This launch allows you to connect to and visualize data from the Databricks SQL version of the platform.

Amazon QuickSight now fully support NULL in parameter use. Parameter, as a place holder for single value or multi-value variables, is a powerful and widely used entity in QuickSight. Previously, NULL is not supported as a valid value for parameter, which created some discrepancies when user data has NULL value in it. With the full enablement for NULL, all functionalities consuming parameters are now supporting NULL value. Enablement of NULL in parameter provides a comprehensive experience when parameter is used in various cases. For further details, visit here .

Starting today, AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS Single Sign-On) customers can manage the session duration (between 15 mins and 7 days) for AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) and SDKs sessions. With this release, when you set access portal session duration for your organization in IAM Identity Center, it also applies to AWS CLI and SDKs sessions in addition to application and console sessions.

AWS Glue crawlers now support Snowflake, making it easier for you to understand updates to Snowflake schema and extract meaningful insights.

Amazon QuickSight launches an asset management console for administrators. With an interactive UI, administrators can now list and search all account assets regardless of who the owner of these assets are. They can list all the assets a user or group has access to including in a multi-tenant environment. They can perform asset level or bulk actions like transferring assets from one person to another when someone leaves the organization, share assets with other users or revoke asset access. Current supported assets are dashboards, analyses, datasets, datasources and shared folders. Asset management console is available to administrators with access to the QuickSight admin console pages via IAM credentials. For more information, visit here .

AWS X-ray adds support for trace linking, enabling customers to visualize, and debug requests as they travel through event-driven applications built using Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) and AWS Lambda. Using trace linking, customers can now see the relationships between services and resources in their event-driven applications leveraging Amazon SQS and AWS Lambda, quickly identify performance bottlenecks, and explore individual requests to find the root cause of application health problems with just a few clicks. 

Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that automatically extracts printed text, handwriting, and data from any document or image. Textract now provides you the capability to detect handwritten signatures, e-signatures, and initials on documents such as loan application forms, checks, claim forms and more. AnalyzeDocument Signatures reduces the need for human reviewers and helps customers reduce costs, save time, and build scalable solutions for document processing.

ABAC is an authorization strategy that defines access permissions based on tags which can be attached to IAM resources such as IAM users and roles, and to Amazon Web Services resources, like Lambda functions, to simplify permission management. ABAC support for Lambda functions allows you to scale your permissions as your organization innovates and give granular access to developers without requiring a policy update when a user or project is added, removed or updated. With ABAC support for Amazon Lambda, IAM policies can be used to allow or deny specific Lambda API actions when the IAM principal’s tags match the tags on a Lambda function.

Amazon EventBridge introduces new capabilities that make it simpler to build rules. Amazon EventBridge now supports generating CloudFormation templates from the rules and buses console pages. CloudFormation templates help provision and manage the configuration of event buses and rules, and you can now export your existing configurations in the console directly to a CloudFormation template. Simply select an existing rule in the console, pick JSON or YAML, and click the download button to export the configuration to a CloudFormation template. The CloudFormation template will contain the rule and target(s) of the rule. You can also select an event bus, choose whether or not to include existing rules on that bus, and download a CloudFormation template containing information for the bus, rules (if included), and targets. This makes it easier to generate CloudFormation templates for more complex rules and targets, and simplifies configuring rules and buses in different environments. 

Today, Amazon EMR has announced support for long running fault-tolerant SQL queries on Trino engine (Project Tardigrade ) with checkpointing in Amazon S3 or HDFS for fault-tolerance. Project Tardigrade aims to improve the user experience of long running, resource intensive queries on Trino, when used for ETL style workloads. Project Tardigrade uses Amazon S3 for checkpointing buffered intermediate data. With Amazon EMR 6.9 release, we are also adding checkpointing on HDFS for performance sensitive and long running SQL workloads.