Infosys Cloud Data Validation Solution is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Infosys, an AWS Data & Analytics Competency Partner. Infosys Cloud Data Validation Solution automates the validation of data regularization and accuracy to strengthen your quality assurance processes by achieving complete data coverage during the testing phase and identifying anomalies earlier in the data life cycle. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in an engagement that delivers an initial meeting with key stakeholders to identify quality assurance opportunities, a detailed statement of work that includes scope or use case of data validation, and deployment of the solution.

AWS Glue Data Catalog now supports PartitionIndex on tables. As you continually add partitions to tables, the number of partitions can grow significantly over time causing query times to increase. With PartitionIndexes, you can reduce the overall data transfers and processing, and reduce query processing time.  

AWS ParallelCluster is a fully supported and maintained open source cluster management tool that makes it easy for scientists, researchers, and IT administrators to deploy and manage High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters in the AWS cloud. HPC clusters are collections of tightly coupled compute, storage, and networking resources that enable customers to run large scale scientific and engineering workloads. 

You can now share your Amazon CloudWatch Dashboards with users who do not have direct access to your AWS account. Amazon CloudWatch Dashboards enable you to create re-usable graphs of data from your AWS resources and custom metrics and logs, so that you can quickly monitor operational status and identify issues at a glance. With this new capability you can share dashboards across teams, with stakeholders, and with people external to your organization. You can even display dashboards on big screens in team areas, or embed them in Wikis and other webpages. 

Amazon AppFlow, a fully managed integration service that enables customers to securely transfer data between AWS services and software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications, now offers customers the flexibility to choose json, comma-separated values (CSV), or parquet as the file format when transferring data from a source application to Amazon S3. This feature is supported for all source applications except Google Analytics, and Amplitude at this time. These options enable customers to easily integrate data ingested through AppFlow into their analytics pipelines without having to perform additional data format translation steps.  

AWS Step Functions now supports tracing end-to-end workflows with AWS X-Ray, giving you full visibility across state machine executions and making it easier to analyze and debug your distributed applications.

Starting today, the latest generation of burstable, general purpose Amazon EC2 T4g instances are available. These instances are powered by Arm-based AWS Graviton2 processors and deliver up to 40% better price performance over T3 instances. The T4g instances provide a baseline level of CPU performance with the ability to burst CPU usage at any time for as long as required. They offer a balance of compute, memory, and network resources for a broad spectrum of general purpose workloads, including large scale micro-services, caching servers, search engine indexing, e-commerce platforms, small and medium databases, virtual desktops, and business-critical applications. A free trial of T4g is also available now for the t4g.micro instance size. All new and existing AWS customers can utilize the free trial that automatically deducts 750 hours of t4g.micro usage from their AWS bill each month until Dec 31st, 2020. 

FreeRTOS kernel v10.4.0 is now available for download . The new version brings numerous new features such as improved direct to task notification capabilities, improved memory protection unit (MPU) support, and a new Linux port.

AWS CloudWatch Synthetics makes it easy to proactively monitor critical graphical user interface (GUI) workflows and broken or ‘dead’ links in your web application. Starting today, you can individually debug each step of the GUI workflow and hone in on a specific broken or ‘dead’ link when you are alerted that something does not behave as expected. Screenshots and latencies for each step of the workflow helps identify if the failure was because of issues related to the web application or its underlying infrastructure.

Amazon EC2 is now available through VPC endpoints in three availability zones in South America (Sao Paulo) and Canada (Central), and four Availability Zones in US West (Oregon), allowing you to access Amazon EC2 from within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) without traversing the internet.