Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce the new Amazon OpenSearch Service Delivery specialization for AWS Partners that help customers perform interactive log analytics, real-time application monitoring, website search, and more. Amazon OpenSearch Service manages software installation, upgrades, patching, scaling (up to 3 PB), and cross-region replication with no downtime. Amazon OpenSearch Service is also bundled with a dashboard visualization tool, OpenSearch Dashboards. This tool helps visualize not only log and trace data, but also machine-learning powered results for anomaly detection and search relevance ranking.

AWS Cloud Control API has expanded its availability to the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region. Cloud Control API is a set of common application programming interfaces (APIs) that is designed to make it easy for developers to manage their cloud infrastructure in a consistent manner and leverage the latest AWS capabilities faster. Using Cloud Control API, developers can manage the lifecycle of hundreds of AWS resources and over a dozen third-party resources with five consistent APIs instead of using distinct service-specific APIs. With Cloud Control API, AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners can automate how their solutions integrate with existing and future AWS features and services through a one-time integration, instead of spending weeks of custom development work as new resources become available. Terraform by HashiCorp, Pulumi, and Red Hat Ansible have integrated their solutions with AWS Cloud Control API.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is thrilled to announce the new Amazon EKS Service Delivery specialization to highlight AWS Partners with consulting offerings that have demonstrated proven capabilities to architect, run, and operate containerized workloads on Amazon EKS. Amazon EKS Delivery partners play a crucial role in the customer journey as customers navigate modernization of legacy applications, operations, and infrastructure. Recognizing the complexity of Kubernetes, customers seek proven methodologies, tools, and best practices for accelerating EKS modernization on AWS. 

AWS Control Tower provides the easiest way to set up and govern a secure, multi-account AWS environment, and reduces the complexity and time required to establish governance supporting multiple AWS accounts. We are excited to introduce AWS Control Tower Delivery Partners offering consulting services on AWS Control Tower, and AWS Control Tower Ready Partners offering software products that support AWS Control Tower. AWS Control Tower Partners receive prescriptive guidance to build solutions on Control Tower, and their offerings are vetted by AWS Solutions Architects.

Amazon EMR supports PrestoDB and Trino for running interactive SQL analytics over large datasets across multiple data sources. Today, we’re excited to announce the latest PrestoDB and Trino updates included in EMR release 6.8.

AWS Console Mobile Application users can now access AWS CloudShell in the iOS and Android applications. The Console Mobile App provides AWS CloudShell in a mobile-friendly interface that enables users to run scripts with the AWS command-line interface (AWS CLI) to interact with 250+ AWS services while on-the-go. Users also have access to an extended mobile keyboard when using AWS CloudShell in the Console Mobile App. The extended mobile keyboard provides users with key inputs (e.g. tab, ctrl, alt, esc) that are available in the AWS CloudShell console on desktop. The Console Mobile App currently offers AWS CloudShell in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), and South America (São Paulo).

Amazon MSK Connect now supports Private DNS hostnames for enhanced security. With Private DNS hostname support in MSK Connect, you can configure connectors to reference public or private domain names. Connectors will use the DNS servers configured in your VPC’s DHCP option set to resolve domain names. You can now use MSK Connect to privately connect with databases, data warehouses and other resources in your VPC to comply with your security needs.

Starting today, Amazon EC2 supports the replacement of instance root volume using an updated AMI without requiring customers to stop their instance. This allows customers to easily update their applications and guest operating system, while retaining the instance store data, networking and IAM configuration.

Starting today, Amazon EC2 Is4gen and Im4gn instances, the latest generation storage-optimized instances, are available in Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region. Based on the AWS Nitro System, Im4gn and Is4gen instances are powered by Arm-based AWS Graviton2 processors and are build using AWS Nitro SSDs which enable up to 60% lower latency and up to 75% reduced latency variability in Im4gn and Is4gen instances compared to the third generation of storage optimized instances. Im4gn instances deliver up to 40% better price-performance and up to 44% lower cost per TB versus comparable current generation x86-based storage optimized instances for applications requiring dense local SSD storage and higher compute performance such as MySQL, NoSQL, and file systems. The Is4gen instances provide the lowest cost per TB and highest density per vCPU of SSD storage in Amazon EC2 for applications such as stream processing and monitoring, real-time databases, and log analytics, that require high random I/O access to large amounts of local SSD data. These instances enable 15% lower cost per TB of storage and up to 48% better compute performance compared to I3en instances.

Amazon Aurora now supports exporting database clusters directly to S3 in Apache Parquet format without creating a snapshot first. Customers can also initiate an export to S3 directly from the Aurora database cluster, saving them time, cost and the extra overhead of creating/retaining snapshots to export data to S3.