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Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink now supports per second billing

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Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink is now billed in one-second increments. There is a ten-minute minimum charge per application. Per-second billing is applicable to applications that are newly launched or already running.

Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink makes it easier to transform and analyze streaming data in real time with Apache Flink. Apache Flink is an open source framework and engine for processing data streams. Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink reduces the complexity of building and managing Apache Flink applications and integrates with Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK), Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, Amazon OpenSearch Service, Amazon DynamoDB streams, Amazon S3, custom integrations, and more using built-in connectors. Create or update an Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink application in the Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink console .

This capability is available in all AWS regions where Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink is currently available, excluding China Regions and GovCloud (US) Regions. To learn more, see our documentation .

Amazon Timestream for LiveAnalytics introduces Query Insights

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Today, Amazon Timestream for LiveAnalytics announces the launch of Query Insights, a feature that provides details of your query execution, enabling you to identify areas for improvement to optimize your queries, resulting in improved query performance and lower query costs.

Amazon Timestream for LiveAnalytics is a serverless time-series database that automatically scales to ingest and analyze large volumes of time-series data, allowing you to store and process massive amounts of data without worrying about provisioning or managing infrastructure. To maximize the value of your time-series data and enable real-time analytics, optimizing query performance is essential. Query Insights provides detailed information of the pruning efficiency of the query, tables with inefficient pruning, and other query metrics. You can leverage these insights to refine your queries to effectively prune the relevant data, and optimize your data model for your desired query patterns, improving query performance and reducing your query costs. You can enable this feature for your queries in the Timestream console, AWS SDK or CLI and receive insights in the query response, all without requiring additional infrastructure or incurring additional costs.

To get started with Query Insights, navigate to the Amazon Timestream console, AWS SDK, or CLI, and start analyzing your query performance today, at no additional cost. The feature is available in all commercial AWS Regions  where Amazon Timestream for LiveAnalytics is available. For more information, visit the Amazon Timestream documentation .

AWS Billing Conductor now supports RI and Savings Plans coverage and utilization reports

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Starting today, AWS Billing Conductor (ABC) customers can view pro forma data in Reservation and Saving Plan coverage and utilization reports. This release allows ABC customers to analyze Reservation and Saving Plans utilization and coverage metrics scoped at the billing group level and reflecting the pro forma pricing rules. AWS Partners can use the feature to enable their customers to view commitment discount application on cost data that reflect the customer’s specific pricing agreement.

For billing groups that contain accounts with Reservations or Saving Plan commitments, the billing group primary account can view pro forma coverage and utilization data for all accounts in the billing group. Non-primary accounts in an ABC billing group can view pro forma coverage and utilization for their own account. Organizations should use non-pro forma cost data to drive cost optimization initiatives.

Pro forma Reservation and Saving Plans coverage and utilization reports are available in all commercial AWS Regions, excluding the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD.

To learn more about this feature integration, visit the AWS Billing Conductor product page , or review the User Guide and API Reference .

EC2 Image Builder now supports Apple macOS

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EC2 Image Builder now supports Apple macOS operating system, allowing customers to use macOS as base images for their image pipelines. This capability enables customers to create and manage custom macOS images with the same ease as they do today for supported Windows and Linux distributions.

Previously, customers had to manually build their up-to-date macOS images or rely on separate tools, leading to a fragmented image management experience. Now, customers can simply use a macOS image in EC2 Image Builder, customize the image, and easily distribute it to required AWS accounts and regions. EC2 Image Builder supports latest x86 and ARM64 macOS images available for EC2 Mac instances. It provides automatic updates to the latest macOS versions, allowing customers to stay up-to-date and easily move to the latest version of macOS. This addition of macOS operating system enables customers to consolidate their image management processes within EC2 Image Builder.

EC2 Image Builder provides these managed images at no additional cost to the customers. Apple macOS managed images are available in all AWS regions that supports EC2 Mac instances. To view the EC2 instance type availability by region, customers can visit the documentation here .

For more information on the supported operating systems in EC2 Image Builder, customers can visit EC2 Image Builder documentation . Customers can get started from the EC2 Image Builder Console, CLI, API, CloudFormation, or CDK, and learn more in the EC2 Image Builder documentation .
 

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