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It is more than easy to collect, store, organize, and monitor data from industrial equipment at scale. #AWS #IoT SiteWise now supports table charts in AWS IoT SiteWise Monitor. With table charts, you can have a compact representation of the latest data from your equipment in a simple table by dragging and dropping the data and metrics you are interested in monitoring into a table

Exciting announcement – The preview release of #AWS #SaaS Boost. The open-source ready-to-use reference environment enables Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to accelerate the move to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). AWS SaaS Boost takes on the heavy lifting of launching SaaS offerings by guiding software builders through the migration and operational processes, making the move to SaaS as frictionless as possible

You can now define your infrastructure and applications in AWS CloudFormation with reusable building blocks called modules. A module encapsulates one or more resources and their respective configurations for reuse across your organization. Modules make it simple to use the specific resources you need while keeping resource configurations aligned with organizational best practices. You can choose from a collection of pre-built modules created by domain experts, AWS, partners, and the open-source community to provision the resources you need quickly without needing to sort through resource intricacies

The pace of progress in #AWS innovation is incredibly fast, and we are proud to be an AWS Advanced Partner. In keeping with their innovation strategy, AWS has launched the #Amazon Comprehend Events, a service that extracts real-world events and the associated arguments from text documents. Using Comprehend Events is simple. The API comes pre-trained for common events such as mergers, bankruptcies, and IPOs. Comprehend Events extracts what happened, which entities were involved, if the same entity and event are mentioned multiple times in the text. The API output is provided in an easy to consume JSON, which can be integrated with downstream applications

Cybercrime remains one of the greatest threats to every company globally, which is why #AWS prioritizes privacy and security in the digital era. AWS recently introduced the AWS Network Firewall - a new managed service to deploy network security across your #Amazon #VPCs with just a few clicks. The security service scales automatically with your network traffic, so you don’t have to worry about deploying and managing any infrastructure

Introducing Video on Demand on #AWS Foundation solution that provisions the AWS services required to build scalable, distributed VOD processing and delivery workflows. This solution is designed to help you quickly get started encoding video files with AWS Elemental MediaConvert. It can be easily customized and used as the starting point to create a more complex workflow

Apply your business rules to #Amazon Personalize recommendations on the fly. Amazon Personalize now allows you to apply business rules to your recommendations on the fly, without any extra cost. Dynamic filters save you time by removing the need to define all possible permutations of your business rules in advance and enable you to use your most recent information to filter recommendations. Amazon Personalize allows you to improve customer engagement by powering personalized product and content recommendations and targeted marketing promotions

#AWS announced the availability of AWS Gateway Load Balancer, a new service that helps you deploy, scale, and manage third-party virtual network appliances such as firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention systems, analytics, visibility, and others. AWS Gateway Load Balancer combines a transparent network gateway (that is, a single entry and exit point for all traffic) and a load balancer that distributes traffic and scales your virtual appliances with the demand

Savings Plans Alerts now available in #AWS Cost Management. Savings Plans is a flexible pricing model that offers savings of up to 72% on your #Amazon #EC2, AWS #Lambda, and Amazon #ECS with AWS #Fargate type usage, in exchange for a commitment to a consistent amount of computer usage (measured in $/hour) for a 1 or 3-year term. When you purchase a Savings Plan, you will be charged the discounted Savings Plans price for your usage up to your commitment

AWS IoT SiteWise, a managed service that makes it easy to collect, store, organize, and monitor data from industrial equipment at scale, now supports three new visualization options in SiteWise Monitor: Status Charts, Scatter Plot, and Trend Lines

#AWS CodeArtifact now supports resource tagging making it more straightforward for customers to manage their CodeArtifact resources. AWS CodeArtifact is a fully managed artifact repository service that makes it easier for organizations of any size to securely store, publish, and share software packages used in their development process. Customers can now apply resource tags to label, organize, and categorize their CodeArtifact repositories and domains by application, environment, or other criteria

#Amazon Braket, the fully managed quantum computing service, now supports resource tagging, making it easy for you to manage resources effectively as you scale use of the service. Tags are simple labels consisting of a customer-defined key and value that make it easier for you to manage and filter resources. You can now add, manage, and remove tags for quantum task resources using the #AWS CLI and the Amazon Braket SDK

#Amazon Chime SDK for JavaScript now enables meeting health monitoring and troubleshooting. Application developers building real-time audio, video, and screen sharing applications can collect client metrics from meetings events available from the Amazon Chime SDK for JavaScript. Developers can help end users troubleshoot their applications without requiring them to send in client logs. And by streaming metrics to Amazon CloudWatch, developers can analyze meeting health trends or deep dive on problematic meetings or devices

#Amazon Cognito User Pools enables easy quota management and usage tracking. You can now manage quotas for commonly used operation categories, such as user creation and user authentication, as well as view quotas and usage levels in the AWS Service Quotas dashboard or CloudWatch metrics. This update makes it simple to view your quota usage of and request rate increases for multiple APIs in the same category

#Amazon Kendra, a highly accurate intelligent search service powered by machine learning, is now a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) eligible service. Customers can now use Amazon Kendra to manage healthcare and life science workloads containing protected health information (PHI)

#Amazon API Gateway now supports disabling the default, auto-generated REST API endpoint. Customers can configure a custom domain name endpoint to require different security than the default endpoint generated by API Gateway. By disabling the default API endpoint, customers can require that clients access an API through only the custom domain name. Using this strategy, customers can ensure that clients only access back-end systems through approved security controls configured on the custom domain name

Customers can now use #Jira Service Desk to track operational items related to #AWS resources. You can use Jira Service Desk as a single place to track operational items from AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter. Jira Service Desk users can now view, investigate, and resolve operational items related to their AWS resources while using existing Jira workflows

#AWS Site-to-Site VPN now supports health notifications. AWS has recently introduced notifications regarding Site-to-Site VPN Connections. The feature allows AWS to send a notification via the Personal Health Dashboard (PHD) if your VPN is operating without the recommended dual tunnel configuration for redundancy (Single Tunnel Notification), or if your VPN has experienced a momentary loss of redundancy due to a tunnel endpoint replacement (Tunnel Replacement Notification)

#NoSQL Workbench support for Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is now generally available. You can design and visualize #Amazon Kespaces data models more efficiently using NoSQL Workbench, which has a point-and-click interface for creating nonrelational data models. Designing scalable data models is essential to building massive-scale, operational, nonrelational databases. With NoSQL Workbench for Amazon Keyspaces, you can create new data models from scratch by defining keyspaces, tables, and columns

#Amazon has introduced the #AWS Activate Console – helping startups accelerate their growth and development. AWS Activate provides startups, including both smaller, early-stage companies, and more advanced digital businesses, with free tools and resources to quickly get started on AWS. The new AWS Activate Console is full of personalized tools and resources designed to support startups through every stage of their journey, from the initial idea to building an MVP, securing their first customer, and scaling their business on AWS and beyond

#Amazon has released #AWS Nitro Enclaves. This new #EC2 capability enables customers to create isolated compute environments (enclaves) to further protect and securely process highly sensitive data such as personally identifiable information (PII), healthcare, financial, and intellectual property data within their Amazon EC2 instances. Nitro Enclaves helps customers reduce the attack surface area for their most sensitive data processing applications

#Amazon #SageMaker Studio Notebooks now support custom images. Amazon SageMaker Studio is the first fully integrated development environment (IDE) for machine learning (ML). With a single click, data scientists and developers can quickly spin up SageMaker Studio Notebooks to explore datasets and build models. Starting today, you can launch SageMaker Studio Notebooks with your own images

#AWS #IoT SiteWise now supports #Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) endpoints via AWS PrivateLink for data plane APIs (PUT and GET APIs). You can securely send and receive data within your VPC, without crossing the public internet and without using public IPs. You can do so by creating a VPC endpoint for the AWS IoT SiteWise service to establish a private connection between your VPC and AWS IoT SiteWise

#AWS Systems Manager's Patch Manager now includes common vulnerability identifiers (CVE ID) in the description of missing patches identified in your fleet across multiple Linux platforms. CVE IDs help you identify security notices applicable to vulnerabilities within your fleet and recommended patches. You can use the #Amazon Inspector to conduct a detailed scan for CVE in your fleet

#AWS Shield now provides global and per-account event summaries to all AWS customers. The summaries provide you an overview of all events detected by AWS Shield, such as Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks and other volumetric anomalies, for each of your accounts and all events detected and mitigated on AWS. The Getting Started page on the AWS Shield console provides a preview of the global threat environment dashboard, a feature previously included only as part of AWS Shield Advanced

#AWS Fargate Spot for #Amazon #ECS is now supported in AWS #CloudFormation, making it easier to manage and run Amazon ECS tasks across Fargate and Fargate Spot. You can now use CloudFormation to automate the management of Fargate capacity providers, associate them with ECS clusters, and specify capacity provider strategies at the cluster and service level using a CloudFormation template

#Amazon #AppFlow supports importing custom dimensions and metrics from #Google #Analytics to Amazon #S3. You can specify the custom dimensions and metrics that you want to import while mapping source fields to the destination fields during flow set up, and AppFlow will transfer records, including these dimensions and metrics, during flow execution. This new capability provides customers additional options for transferring data using AppFlow, enabling them to integrate Google Analytics data with AWS services in new ways to improve business productivity and drive innovation

The #AWS Copilot CLI for #Amazon Elastic Container Service (#ECS) launched version 0.5.0. The release allows you to deploy applications or jobs that need to run only on a particular schedule. AWS Copilot has built-in timeouts and retires to provide more flexibility for how your scheduled jobs run. AWS Copilot will also deploy all the required infrastructure and settings. You will only provide the application and schedule them to be run, allowing you to focus on development instead of manually setting up rules and infrastructure for running scheduled jobs

The ALB Ingress Controller is now the #AWS Load Balancer Controller, and includes support for both Application Load Balancers and Network Load Balancers. The new controller enables you to simplify operations and save costs by sharing an Application Load Balancer across multiple applications in your #Kubernetes cluster, as well as using a Network Load Balancer to target pods running on AWS #Fargate

#Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) now supports selecting the origination number when sending SMS messages to your customers. You currently have the option of choosing the origination number to use. Origination numbers are phone numbers that Amazon SNS will use to send your SMS message, such as short and long codes. This feature allows you to achieve a more consistent and trusted experience for the message receiver

#Amazon #Redshift now allows you to schedule your SQL queries for executions in recurring schedules and enables you to build event-driven by integrating with Amazon #Eventbridge. You can now schedule time-sensitive or long-running queries, loading or unloading your data, or refreshing your materialized views on a regular schedule

#AWS Step Functions now supports #Amazon Athena service integration. AWS Step Functions integration with Amazon Athena allows you to build workflows that query data on your #S3 data lake. AWS Step Functions support built-in error handling, parameter passing, recommended security settings, and state management, reducing the amount of code you have to write and maintain. You can use Athena integration to create a workflow that queries data in Amazon S3, gets the query results, verifies the ETL job completion, and notifies relevant stakeholders

#Amazon Kendra, a highly accurate and easy to use intelligent search service powered by machine learning, now supports custom data sources. You can leverage Kendra’s intelligent search capabilities across a broader range of content repositories using Kendra’s custom data source feature. By adding the custom data source feature, customers can now use the Kendra API to create their custom connectors and push content directly into Kendra from any content repository

#AWS has announced the availability, in preview, of AWS Distro for Open Telemetry, a secure, production-ready, AWS-supported distribution of the OpenTelemetry project. Part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, OpenTelemetry, provides open-source APIs, libraries, and agents to collect distributed traces and metrics for application monitoring. With AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry, you can instrument your applications just once to send correlated metrics and traces to multiple monitoring solutions

#AWS Global Accelerator announces the ability to override the destination ports used to route traffic to an application endpoint. This allows you to map a list of external destination ports – that your users send traffic to – to a list of internal destination ports you want an application endpoint to receive traffic on. By default, an accelerator routes user traffic to endpoints in AWS regions using the protocol and port ranges you specify when you create a listener. The new capability now allows you to define different destination ports that you want the application endpoints to receive traffic on

#Amazon Connect launches agent connection time metrics. You can now add connection time metrics to your reporting in Amazon Connect. This enables you to understand the time from when Connect sends a contact to an agent to when they accept and are connected to the phone call or chat

#AWS #Lambda now supports AWS #PrivateLink. This feature allows you to manage and invoke Lambda functions from your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) without exposing your traffic to the public Internet. PrivateLink provides connectivity between your VPCs and AWS services, like Lambda, on the private AWS network

#Amazon CloudFront announces Origin Shield, a centralized caching layer that helps increase your cache hit ratio to reduce the load on your origin. Origin Shield also decreases your origin operating costs by collapsing requests across regions, so as few as one request goes to your origin per object. Origin Shield is charged as a request fee for each request that goes to Origin Shield as an incremental layer

#AWS IQ now provides integrated access logs for expert activity. AWS IQ is a professional services marketplace that connects AWS customers with AWS Certified freelancers and consulting firms with deep AWS expertise. IQ allows you to connect with experts within minutes, easily grant access to your AWS account and pay through your AWS bill when work is complete. Customers previously had to navigate to the AWS CloudTrail console in every region to monitor expert activity in their account. IQ now provides integrated activity monitoring to make this easier

#AWS #DataSync simplifies the initial setup for online data transfer. The service now offers a simplified agent setup using the agent’s local console to enable you to set up your agent faster and test network connectivity between your on-premises storage and AWS within minutes

Porting Assistant for .NET is now open source. You can now extend the data set with new recommendations for assessment and use the extended data set to scan your project for incompatibilities. You can also review and offer suggestions on existing data sets. Porting Assistant for .NET now allows you to participate in the development process actively and bring your experience and expert knowledge to the tool

#AWS Outposts support for AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM) lets customers share access to Outposts resources – EC2 instances, EBS volumes, subnets, and local gateways (LGWs) – across multiple accounts within an organization. With this new capability, you can enable distributed teams and business units within your organization to configure VPCs, launch and run EC2 instances, and create EBS volumes

#Amazon #Redshift now supports the ability to query across databases in a Redshift cluster. With cross-database queries, you can seamlessly query data from any database in the cluster, regardless of which database you are connected to. Cross-database queries can eliminate data copies and simplify your data organization to support multiple business groups on the same cluster

#Amazon Rekognition now detects personal protective equipment (PPE) such as face covers (face masks), headcovers (helmets and hard hats), and hand covers (gloves) on persons in images. The deep-learning-based image and video analysis service that can identify objects, texts, scenes, as well as support content moderation by detecting inappropriate content, can now analyze images to detect if persons in the images are wearing PPE. Customers can use Amazon Rekognition to analyze images from their on-premises cameras across multiple locations to automatically detect if persons in the images are wearing the required PPE

#Amazon #Aurora enables dynamic resizing for database storage space. The storage allocated to your Amazon Aurora database cluster will now dynamically decrease when you delete data from the cluster. The storage space already automatically increases up to a maximum size of 128 tebibytes (TiB), and will now automatically decrease when data is deleted. Customers can only pay for the storage they use

#AWS Purchase Order Management is now generally available. The product gives you the ability to define and manage your purchase orders ("Pos") for AWS services in a way that meets your business needs. You can manage your PO information from your AWS Billing Console, configure multiple Pos, and define the rules of how Pos map to your AWS invoices. You can also track your PO status and balance and set up email notifications to proactively validate your POs

You can now define the actions to take in your account when a budget exceeds its threshold (actual forecasted amounts). This level of control allows you to reduce unintentional overspending in your account. You can choose to execute actions automatically or require a workflow approval process before AWS Budgets run a request on your behalf. You can set up to 5 budget thresholds with up to 10 actions for each entry

Fluent Bit supports #Amazon #S3 as a destination to route container logs. Customers using container services like #ECS, #EKS, or self-managed Kubernetes can now use the Fluent Bit log router to send their container logs to Amazon S3. Fluent Bit allows customers to route container logs to various AWS and partner monitoring solutions, including Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Kinesis, Datadog, Splunk, and now Amazon S3

#AWS Elemental MediaLive Statmux now supports MPEG-2 encoding. Broadcasters can now use the AWS cloud to perform MPEG-2 encoding to feed legacy devices with limited codec support, without expensive upgrades of their customer's or partner's decoding devices. The capability enables broadcasters to reach the vast majority of devices that connect them to their customers

#Amazon #EKS now supports #Kuberbetes version 1.18. Kubernetes is rapidly evolving, with frequent feature releases and bug fixes. The new version 1.18 release has a new beta of Server-side Apply, a Topology Manager reaching beta status, and a new IngressClass resource for the Ingress specification that makes it simpler to customize Ingress configuration