Amazon QuickSight’s SPICE engine now supports data sets up to 250M rows and 500GB. Customers love using SPICE to accelerate their dashboards, and this increase—from 100M rows and 200GB—is the most frequent request we get. Today we’re happy to announce support for larger data sets, letting you accelerate dashboards with more data.

The latest update to the AWS Well-Architected Framework is now available and reflects the latest best practice guidance for designing and deploying cloud workloads. An integral part of the AWS Well-Architected Tool (AWS WA Tool), the AWS Well-Architected Framework has been a guide for building secure, efficient, reliable, cost-effective, and high-performance workloads on AWS since 2015. It continues to evolve and improve as new cloud services and capabilities are introduced. 

Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth is a fully managed data labeling service that makes it easy to build highly accurate training datasets for machine learning. Starting today, SageMaker Ground Truth now supports common video labeling use cases with new built-in workflows.

You can now use the new Amazon Redshift console Amazon Redshift in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. The new user interface and new features simplify management and improve insights into the health and performance of your Amazon Redshift clusters and workloads.  

AWS RoboMaker, a service that makes it easy to simulate and deploy robotics applications at cloud scale, today announced the S3 rosbag cloud extension for ROS Kinetic and Melodic distributions. This new cloud extension enables customers to easily configure and record data from robots as rosbags, and upload them to Amazon S3, which they can later use to analyze events, troubleshoot existing applications, and provide as inputs to AWS RoboMaker log-based simulation for regression testing.  

Today, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) announced AWS Copilot, a command line interface tool that helps customers develop, release, and operate containerized applications on AWS. With a single command, AWS Copilot creates all infrastructure and artifacts required to run production-ready service on Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate, including task definitions, image repositories, and AWS resources like load balancers, deployment pipelines. With AWS Copilot, users can focus on developing their applications rather than setting up infrastructure.

You can now use AWS PrivateLink to privately access the Amazon RDS Application Programming Interface (Amazon RDS API) for Amazon RDS from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) without using public IPs, and without requiring the traffic to traverse across the Internet.  

AWS WAF now supports inspecting the X-Forwarded-For (XFF), True-Client-IP, or other custom header that includes the originating IP address of a client connecting to your application through an HTTP proxy or a third-party CDN. With this feature, you can reference these headers to write rate-based rules, geographic match rules, or IP match rules, allowing you to take action on IPs that are found within these headers. Both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are supported. 

We are excited to announce the launch of normalized model scores in Amazon Fraud Detector (Preview). Customers use scores to sideline high risk events, while allowing low risk events to pass with no friction. Prior to this launch, score distributions could shift between models, forcing customers to manually analyze the distributions and update their business logic (e.g. rules) to account for these shifts. 

We’re excited to announce that we’ve updated AWS WAF Security Automations, a reference implementation that makes it easier for customers to configure WAF rules to protect web applications running in AWS.