Amazon QuickSight now supports monitoring of SPICE consumption by sending metrics to Amazon CloudWatch. QuickSight developers and administrators can use these metrics to observe and monitor SPICE consumption and proactively monitor if a QuickSight account is reaching its SPICE capacity limit which might result in failed dataset ingestions. This allows them to provide their readers with a consistent and uninterrupted experience on QuickSight. For more information, visit here .

Today, AWS announced the availability of next-generation General Purpose gp3 storage volumes for Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). Amazon RDS gp3 volumes give you the flexibility to provision storage performance independently of storage capacity, paying only for the resources you need. Every gp3 volume provides you the ability to select from 20 GiB to 64 TiB of storage capacity, with a baseline storage performance of 3,000 IOPS included with the price of storage. For workloads that need even more performance, you can scale up to 64,000 IOPS for an additional cost.

Customers in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region can now use AWS Transfer Family.

Starting today, you can configure the set of instance types used when requesting EC2 capacity with attribute-based instance type selection.

Starting today, you can request EC2 instances based on your workload’s network bandwidth requirements through attribute-based instance type selection.

Starting today, customers can create custom line items in AWS Billing Conductor (ABC) that span across multiple billing periods. For customers who want to apply consistent discounts or fees to specific billing groups , recurring custom line items remove the need to create a new custom line item each month for the same purpose. For example, customers can use a flat recurring custom line item to distribute credits or use percent-based recurring custom line items to apply a managed service fee or tax. ABC applies recurring custom line items at the beginning of each new billing period.

AWS Config now supports 14 more resource types for services including AWS IoT Events, AWS Cloud Map, Amazon EventBridge, EC2 Image Builder, AWS DataSync, AWS Glue, Amazon Route 53, and Amazon Elastic Container Registry. For the full list of newly supported resource types see [1].

Starting today, Amazon EC2 C6id, M6id and R6id instances are available in AWS Region Asia Pacific (Sydney). These instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz and up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage. Compared to previous generation instances: all three instances deliver up to 15% better price performance; C6id offers up to 138% higher TB storage per vCPU and 56% lower cost per TB; M6id and R6id offer up to 58% higher TB storage per vCPU, and 34% lower cost per TB.

AWS Security Hub now supports automated security checks aligned to the Center for Internet Security’s (CIS) AWS Foundations Benchmark version 1.4.0 requirements, Level 1 and 2 (CIS v1.4.0). Security Hub’s CIS v1.4.0 standard includes up to 39 automated rules that conduct continuous checks against 38 CIS v1.4.0 requirements across 8 AWS services. The CIS v1.4.0 standard is supported in addition to the CIS v1.2.0 standard which was previously available in Security Hub.

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, serverless, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra-compatible database service, now supports the Murmur3Partitioner.