AWS News Oct 28 - Nov 03

AWS News Feed: Whats new at AWS

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Amazon Connect:
- Supports callbacks for Chats and Tasks outside business hours.
- Provides published forecast data in analytics data lake for easier reporting.

Amazon SageMaker:
- JupyterLab 4 available on Notebook Instances, offering improved performance and features.

Amazon Bedrock:
- Supports cost allocation tags for inference profiles to track GenAI costs.
- Fine-tuning for Anthropic's Claude 3 Haiku model now generally available.
- Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3 Haiku models available in GovCloud.
- Meta's Llama 3 18B and 70B models available for fine-tuning.

Amazon WorkSpaces:
- Supports desktop traffic over TCP and UDP port 443, simplifying network management.

Amazon RDS:
- Cross-Region Automated Backup replication available in new regions.
- Performance Insights supports monitoring Data API queries for Aurora MySQL.
- Aurora supports rolling OS upgrades for clusters with multiple reader instances.

Amazon Redshift:
- Data API now supports CSV result format in addition to JSON.
- Introduces auto-copy feature for simplified data ingestion from S3.
- Integrates with Amazon Bedrock for generative AI tasks.
- Supports incremental refresh of Materialized Views on data lake tables.
- Serverless introduces AI-driven scaling and optimization for better price performance.

Amazon EC2:
- M8g instances powered by Graviton4 available in Dallas Local Zone.
- Auto Scaling supports final validation period for instance refresh.
- Supports AWS Fault Injection Service actions for testing application resilience.
- Introduces new metrics for monitoring EBS volume performance.
- Mac instances now support Apple macOS Sequoia.

AWS PrivateLink:
- Announces UDP support and dual-stack Network Load Balancers.

Amazon Aurora:
- PostgreSQL Limitless Database now generally available for massive scaling.
- PostgreSQL now supports R7i database instances with larger sizes and improved performance.

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES):
- Mail Manager introduces enhancements for authenticated connections and security.

AWS Lambda:
- Introduces new getting started experience in VS Code IDE with AWS Toolkit.

AWS Supply Chain:
- Includes embedded Analytics powered by Amazon Quicksight for custom reporting.

Amazon Keyspaces:
- Now supports User-Defined Types (UDTs) for Cassandra workloads.

AWS Glue Studio:
- Visual ETL data preparation authoring available in additional regions.

Amazon WorkMail:
- Supports multi-factor authentication through AWS IAM Identity Center integration.

AWS Deadline Cloud:
- Sends budget-related events via Amazon EventBridge for real-time updates.

Amazon EMR:
- Version 7.3 enhances data protection and supports open table formats on Apache Flink.

AWS Amplify Hosting:
- Integrates with Amazon S3 for static website hosting with managed CDN.

Amazon VPC:
- Launches new security group sharing features for improved management.

Amazon DataZone:
- Supports authentication with Athena JDBC Driver for querying data lake assets.

AWS AppSync Events:
- Launches serverless WebSocket APIs for real-time web and mobile experiences.

AWS Backup Audit Manager:
- Now available in Asia Pacific (Osaka) for compliance reporting.

AWS Network Firewall:
- Supports configurable TCP idle timeout for uninterrupted stateful inspection.

Amazon CloudWatch:
- Introduces new metrics for monitoring EBS volume performance and latency issues.

Amazon EventBridge:
- Supports read-only API events from CloudTrail in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

AWS DataSync:
- Introduces Enhanced mode for S3 transfers with improved performance.

Amazon Route 53:
- Supports new DNS resource record types for improved security and performance.

AWS Clean Rooms:
- Launches Spark SQL support with configurable compute size.

Amazon OpenSearch Service:
- Offers dedicated coordinator nodes for improved cluster efficiency.

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB:
- Supports M7i and R7i database instances with improved performance.

AWS CodeBuild:
- Allows automatic retries for failed builds to reduce manual intervention.

ElastiCache for Redis:
- Offers server-side write and read request latency metrics for monitoring.

MemoryDB for Redis:
- Introduces server-side write and read request latency metrics.

Amazon Q Developer:
- Supports inline chat for streamlined coding powered by Claude 3.5 Sonnet.

AWS Trust and Safety Center:
- Now available on AWS re:Post for information on handling abusive content.

VPC DNS Query Logging:
- Available in Asia Pacific (Malaysia) for logging DNS queries from VPCs.

AWS Blu Age Runtime:
- Non-managed version available in 11 more regions with simplified packaging.