AWS Health announces support for organizational view in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, which allows you to view aggregated AWS Health events for your organization on the AWS Health Dashboard or access them programmatically via AWS Health API . AWS Health is the authoritative source of information about service events and planned changes affecting your AWS cloud resources.
Amazon EC2 C7gd, M7gd, and R7gd metal instances are now available
AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7gd, M7gd, and R7gd metal instances with up to 3.8 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage. They have up to 45% improved real-time NVMe storage performance than comparable Graviton2-based instances. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System and are great fit for applications that need access to high-speed, low latency local storage, including those that need temporary storage of data for scratch space, temporary files, and caches. C7gd instances are ideal for high performance computing (HPC), and ad serving. M7gd instances are ideal for general purpose workloads such as application servers, and microservices. R7gd instances are ideal for memory-intensive workloads such as open-source databases, and real-time big data analytics.
Amazon RDS Multi-AZ Deployments with two readable standbys now supports security certificate rotation
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Multi-AZ Deployments with two readable standbys now supports database security certificate rotation. Security certificates provide an extra layer of security by validating the connection made to Amazon RDS database instances and clusters.
Amazon EC2 R7i instances are now available in additional AWS region
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R7i instances are available in Europe(Paris).
AWS Wickr achieves FedRAMP High authorization
AWS Wickr has achieved FedRAMP High authorization in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. You can now use Wickr to help protect communications that are subject to FedRAMP High requirements.
AWS AppFabric now supports Box and IBM Security® Verify
Today, AWS AppFabric announces support for two new software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications: Box and IBM Security® Verify. Starting now, IT administrators and security analysts can use AppFabric to quickly integrate with 25 SaaS applications, aggregate enriched and normalized SaaS audit logs, and audit end-user access across their SaaS apps. This launch expands AWS AppFabric supported applications used across an organization.
Amazon OpenSearch Serverless expands support for time-series workloads up to 10TB
We are excited to announce that Amazon OpenSearch Serverless can now scan and search up to 10TB of time series data which includes one or more indexes within a collection. OpenSearch Serverless is a serverless deployment option for Amazon OpenSearch Service that makes it simple for you to run search and analytics workloads without having to think about infrastructure management. With the support for much larger datasets than before, you can further enhance unlocking valuable operational insights and make data driven decisions to troubleshoot application downtime, improve system performance, or identify fraudulent activities.
CloudWatch Metric Streams adds support for streaming of daily metrics
Amazon CloudWatch announces support for streaming of daily metrics on CloudWatch Metric Streams. With Metric Streams, you can create a continuous, near real-time stream of metrics to a destination of your choice. You can use Metric Streams to send metrics to your data lake on Amazon Web Services (AWS), such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), or AWS Partner solutions including Datadog, New Relic, Splunk, Dynatrace and Sumo Logic. This new capability provides additional metrics for streaming, adding daily metrics with timestamps up to two days old.
Accelerate no-code ML with a refreshed homepage in Amazon SageMaker Canvas
Amazon SageMaker Canvas is a no-code tool to build, customize and deploy machine learning (ML) and Generative AI (GenAI) models. Amazon SageMaker Canvas now features a revamped home page that helps customers get started with their ML and GenAI journey faster. You can view and understand the core capabilities the moment you land in SageMaker Canvas, and thus you can reach the most relevant user journey for you, faster.
Picture of the Day: Lunar Communications Tower constructed by robots
Pictured is a Lunar Communications Tower. Constructed by robots, investigating ways to establish a robust communications infrastructure on the moon by the late 2020’s.
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