Antares Cloud Management is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Claranet, an AWS DevOps Competency Partner. Antares Cloud Management provides an ecosystem of tools for day-to-day operation of containers in production. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in an engagement that delivers a discovery workshop, implementation of the Antares platform, application migration, and 24/7 optimization and support.

The Client VPN self-service portal is a read-only web portal that helps end-users of Client VPN to download VPN Profile and updated versions of AWS Client VPN desktop application. End-users will be able to download the VPN profile and desktop application directly to their computers. We will also continue to support the ability for end-users to directly download the desktop application without the need to enter any credentials.  

Document Understanding Solution is a new AWS Solutions Implementation that provides an easy-to-use web application that extracts text from documents, identifies structural data (tables, key value pairs), extracts critical information (entities), and creates smart search indexes from the data. Additionally, files can be uploaded directly to and analyzed files can be accessed from your AWS account. Part of the Intelligent Document Processing services offered from AWS, this solution uses AWS artificial intelligence (AI) services to solve business problems that apply to various industry verticals:

• Search and discovery: Search information across multiple scanned documents, PDFs, and images
• Compliance: Redact information from documents
• Workflow automation: Easily plugs into your existing upstream and downstream applications

Amazon MQ now supports RabbitMQ , a popular open source message broker. This enables you to migrate your existing RabbitMQ message brokers to AWS without having to rewrite code. Amazon MQ is a fully managed service that provisions and manages open source message brokers like RabbitMQ and Apache ActiveMQ for you. Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ manages both individual and clustered message brokers and handles tasks like provisioning the infrastructure, setting up the broker, and updating the software.

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Database Mail. With Database Mail you can send email messages from your Amazon RDS for SQL Server database instance. After specifying the email recipient(s), you can add files or query results to the message you send. 

RDS Data API now supports tag-based authorization to enable easy management of access to Amazon Aurora Serverless clusters.  

Amazon Honeycode has introduced three new app templates that help you build mobile & web apps for managing work in teams – with no programming required. Honeycode app builders can now launch app templates for applicant tracking, instant polls, and collaborative brainstorming in addition to Honeycode’s existing template library . The new templates are intended for Honeycode builders who are seeking more app examples or want to build an app faster than starting from scratch.  

We are excited to announce the availability of Amazon EC2 P4d instances, the next generation of GPU-based instances that provide the best performance for machine learning (ML) training and high performance computing (HPC) in the cloud for applications such as natural language processing, object detection and classification, seismic analysis, and genomics research. P4d instances are powered by the latest NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs and provide first in the cloud 400 Gbps instance networking with support for Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) and NVIDIA GPUDirect RDMA (remote direct memory access) to enable efficient scale-out of multi-node ML training and HPC workloads.

We are excited to announce that Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) now supports NVIDIA GPUDirect Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA). GPUDirect RDMA support on EFA will be available on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) P4d instances– the next generation of GPU-based instances on AWS. P4d provides the highest performance for machine learning (ML) training and high performance computing (HPC) in the cloud for applications such a natural language processing, object detection and classification, seismic analysis, and computational drug discovery. GPUDirect RDMA support on EFA enables network interface cards (NICs) to directly access GPU memory. This avoids extra memory copies, making remote GPU-to-GPU communication across NVIDIA GPU-based Amazon EC2 instances faster, and reduces orchestration overhead on CPUs and user applications. As a result, our customers running applications using NVIDIA Collective Communications Library (NCCL) on P4d will be able to further accelerate their multi-node tightly-coupled workloads.

Amazon GuardDuty is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. You can now continuously monitor and detect security threats in this region to help protect your AWS accounts, workloads, and data stored in Amazon S3.