Amazon EC2 now supports Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) boot when migrating virtual machines from on-premise to EC2 without having to convert them to Legacy BIOS. UEFI is a modern firmware that initializes your operating system.
AWS Solutions Implementation – The Discovering Hot Topics Using Machine Learning solution adds the capability to filter and visualize Twitter topics based on geographical coordinates
AWS Solutions has updated Discovering Hot Topics using Machine Learning, an AWS Solutions Implementation that ingests text, image and video (video: upcoming feature) from online discourse in order to perform topic modeling, sentiment analysis on plain text and text embedded within images as well as detection of unsafe content in images. In this updated version, the solution allows customers to use geographical coordinates as parameters to filter ingested Twitter data and to narrow visual results. With this capability, organizations can now analyze tweets originating from geographic locations that are relevant to their business and use case.
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports January 2021 Patch Set Update (PSU) for Oracle Database 12.1
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports the January 2021 Patch Set Update (PSU) for Oracle Database 12.1. January 2021 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database 12.2, 18c, and 19c have already been launched.
AWS Gateway Load Balancer is now available in additional 9 regions
Starting today, AWS Gateway Load Balancer is available in the following 9 regions:
- US West (N. California)
- EU (London)
- EU (Paris)
- EU (Milano)
- Africa (Cape Town)
- Middle East (Baharain)
- Asia Pacific (Hong Kong)
- Asia Pacific (Singapore)
- Asia Pacific (Mumbai)
Amazon EKS reduces control plane creation time for EKS clusters by 40%
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) has reduced control plane creation time by 40%, enabling you to create a new EKS cluster control plane in 9 minutes or less, on average.
AWS Proton introduces deletion protection for in-use templates
AWS Proton introduces delete validations for templates in-use, ensuring that dependent resources are not orphaned if a template version is inadvertently deleted.
AWS Fargate updates platform version 1.4.0 to be the LATEST version
AWS Fargate platform version 1.4.0 is now the LATEST version. All new Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Tasks or ECS Services that use the Fargate launch type and have the platformVersion parameter set to LATEST or not specified will run on platform version 1.4.0. The new version has features such as Amazon Elastic File System support and Amazon ECS Exec.
S3 Object Lambda allows you to add your own code to S3 GET requests to modify and process data as it is returned to an application
With S3 Object Lambda you can add your own code to S3 GET requests to modify and process data as it is returned to an application. For the first time, you can use custom code to modify the data returned by standard S3 GET requests to filter rows, dynamically resize images, redact confidential data, and much more.
Amazon QLDB Increases Verification APIs Throughput by an Order of Magnitude
Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (Amazon QLDB) launches increased performance and latency reduction for control plane verification APIs. With this improvement, QLDB customers will experience an average latency reduction of up to 70% and the ability to scale at least 10 times from the current call volumes in many scenarios.
AWS Launch Wizard now supports ‘No Rollback on Failure’
Starting today, AWS Launch Wizard deployments support the ‘No Rollback on Failure’ feature for all Launch Wizard applications. Now, when a Launch Wizard deployment fails, resources that were created as part of the deployment will not be immediately deleted/rolled back.