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Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now supports AWS Graviton2-based M6gd database instances in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Europe (Spain, Zurich), and Middle East (UAE) regions.

Amazon VPC announces a network interface setting to dynamically remove and add an auto assigned public IPv4 address on EC2 instances. With this capability, customers that no longer require an auto assigned public IPv4 address on their EC2 instance can remove the public IPv4 address, and if needed attach back a new public IPv4 address, by modifying the public IP setting on the network interface. Before today, once a public IPv4 address was auto assigned to EC2 instance it was not possible to remove it. It remained on the network interface for the lifetime of the EC2 instance.

Foundation model evaluations with SageMaker Clarify is now generally available. This capability helps data scientists and machine learning engineers evaluate, compare, and select foundation models based on a variety of criteria across different tasks within minutes.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Db2 now supports local time zones. You can now set the time zone for your Amazon RDS for Db2 instances to the local time zone of your choice.

Starting today, AWS Global Accelerator supports application endpoints in the AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region, expanding the number of supported AWS Regions to twenty-nine. 

Today, AWS AppFabric announces support for SentinelOne Singularity Cloud as data source and compatible security destination. Starting now, IT administrators and security analysts can use AppFabric to quickly integrate with 27 supported SaaS applications, aggregate enriched and normalized SaaS audit logs, and audit end-user access across their SaaS apps. 

AWS DataSync now lets you enable and disable task schedules. Using this new feature, you can temporarily disable scheduled executions of your task to accommodate events such as maintenance on your storage systems. Once the event is complete, you can enable your task schedule to resume execution of your task at the next scheduled interval.

NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB is a client-side application that provides data modeling and query development features to help you design, create, and work with DynamoDB tables. You can use the NoSQL Workbench operation builder to build and save operations for viewing, updating, and exploring your live datasets. You can even generate code in multiple programming languages. Today, we are pleased to announce quality enhancements to the operation builder to help customers better navigate, run operations, and browse their DynamoDB tables.

Today, AWS Direct Connect now enables AWS Direct Connect Service Delivery Partners (AWS Direct Connect Partners) to support 25 Gbps hosted connection capacity . 

AWS CodeBuild now supports managed GitHub Action self-hosted runners. Customers can configure their CodeBuild projects to receive GitHub Actions workflow job events and run them on CodeBuild ephemeral hosts. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages ready for deployment.

We are excited to announce that Amazon GameLift now supports containers for building, deploying, and running game server packages. Amazon GameLift is a fully managed service that allows developers to quickly manage and scale dedicated game servers for multiplayer games. With this preview release, GameLift now supports end-to-end development of containerized workloads, including deployment and scaling on-premises, in the cloud, or hybrid configurations.

Agents for Amazon Bedrock enable generative AI applications to automate multi-step tasks across company systems and data sources. Agents removes the undifferentiated lifting of orchestration, infrastructure hosting and management, and we’re making building Agents easier than ever.

Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) Performance Insights now collects the query execution plans of the resource-intensive SQL queries in Amazon RDS for SQL Server, and stores them over time. It helps you identify if a change in the query execution plan is the cause of performance degradation or stalled query.

Amazon QuickSight now includes cross-sheet filters and controls. This enables authors to create and manage filters and controls across an entire analysis or dashboard.

Amazon Titan Image Generator enables content creators with rapid ideation and iteration resulting in high efficiency image generation. The Amazon Titan Image Generator model is now generally available in Amazon Bedrock, helping you easily build and scale generative AI applications with new image generation and image editing capabilities.

Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock allows you to connect foundation models (FMs) to internal company data sources to deliver more relevant, context-specific, and accurate responses. Knowledge Bases (KB) now provides a real-time, zero-setup, and low-cost method to securely chat with single documents. 

Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) capability that allows you to connect foundation models (FMs) to internal company data sources to deliver more relevant and accurate responses. Knowledge Bases now supports adding multiple data sources, across accounts.

We are excited to announce the preview of Custom Model Import for Amazon Bedrock. Now you can import customized models into Amazon Bedrock to accelerate your generative AI application development. This new feature allows you to leverage your prior model customization investments within Amazon Bedrock and consume them in the same fully-managed manner as Bedrock’s existing models. For supported architectures such as Llama, Mistral, or Flan T5, you can now import models customized anywhere and access them on-demand.

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports external authentication of database users using Kerberos and Microsoft Active Directory in additional regions. This feature provides the benefits of single sign-on and centralized authentication of Oracle Database users. Keeping all of your user credentials in the same Active Directory will save you time and effort as you will now have a centralized place for storing and managing them for multiple DB instances.

Amazon Titan Image Generator's new watermark detection feature is now generally available in Amazon Bedrock. All Amazon Titan-generated images contain an invisible watermark, by default. The watermark detection mechanism allows you to identify images generated by Amazon Titan Image Generator, a foundation model that allows users to create realistic, studio-quality images in large volumes and at low cost, using natural language prompts.

Model Evaluation on Amazon Bedrock allows you to evaluate, compare, and select the best foundation models for your use case. Amazon Bedrock offers a choice of automatic evaluation and human evaluation. You can use automatic evaluation with predefined algorithms for metrics such as accuracy, robustness, and toxicity. Additionally, for those metrics or subjective and custom metrics, such as friendliness, style, and alignment to brand voice, you can set up a human evaluation workflow with a few clicks. Human evaluation workflows can leverage your own employees or an AWS-managed team as reviewers. Model evaluation provides built-in curated datasets or you can bring your own datasets.

Today, AWS AppFabric announces support for 1Password. Starting now, IT administrators and security analysts can use AppFabric to quickly integrate with 26 supported SaaS applications, aggregate enriched and normalized SaaS audit logs, and audit end-user access across their SaaS apps. 

Today, AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN announced the expansion of the public network support in the Spain region. With this expansion, Internet of Things (IoT) customers that offer LoRaWAN-based systems and solutions in Spain can seamlessly connect their LoRaWAN-powered devices to AWS over a public network infrastructure. This public infrastructure is provided as a service and supported by Everynet - a global LoRaWAN network operator offering networks in the United States, United Kingdom, and Spain. Thanks to the publicly available network infrastructure, customers in Spain can realize improved savings in time and costs associated with managing a private network infrastructure for LoRaWAN-based solutions. 

Agents for Amazon Bedrock enable developers to create generative AI-based applications that can complete complex tasks for a wide range of use cases and deliver answers based on company knowledge sources. In order to complete complex tasks, with high accuracy, reasoning capabilities of the underlying foundational model (FM) play a critical role.

AWS Transfer Family customers can now use SFTP connectors to list files stored in remote SFTP servers, enabling visibility into the contents of directories in remote SFTP file systems and transfer files when file names are not known in advance.

Today, we are announcing the general availability of Guardrails for Amazon Bedrock that enables customers to implement safeguards across large language models (LLMs) based on their use cases and responsible AI policies. Customers can create multiple guardrails tailored to different use cases and apply them on multiple LLMs, providing a consistent user experience and standardizing safety controls across generative AI applications.

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now lets you add automated safeguards for rolling updates of Amazon ECS services in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. You can now monitor and automatically react to changes during an Amazon ECS rolling update by using Amazon CloudWatch alarms. This allows you to more easily automate discovery and remediation for failed deployments and minimize the impact of a bad change.

You can now access Meta’s Llama 3 models, Llama 3 8B and Llama 3 70B, in Amazon Bedrock. Meta Llama 3 is designed for you to build, experiment, and responsibly scale your generative artificial intelligence applications. You can now use these two new Llama 3 models in Amazon Bedrock enabling you to easily experiment with and evaluate even more top foundation models for your use case.

Today, we're excited to announce the availability of a new capability of Amazon Q to analyze issues for complexity and propose splitting the work into separate tasks.

Amazon OpenSearch Service adds support for Hebrew and HanLP (Chinese NLP) language analyzer plugins. These are now available as optional plugins that you can associate with your Amazon OpenSearch Service clusters.

Today, myApplications in the AWS Management Console has expanded the ability to create and manage your applications to 9 additional AWS Regions: Africa (Cape Town), Middle East (UAE), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Milan), Israel (Tel Aviv), Europe (Spain), and Europe (Zurich).

Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights with Enhanced Observability for EKS now auto-discovers critical health metrics from your AWS accelerators Trainium and Inferentia, and AWS high performance network adapters (Elastic Fabric Adapters) as well as NVIDIA GPUs. You can visualize these out-of-the-box metrics in curated Container Insights dashboards to help monitor your accelerated infrastructure and optimize your AI workloads for operational excellence. 

Amazon CloudWatch RUM, which enables customers to monitor their web applications by collecting client side performance and error data in real time, is generally available in the following 5 AWS Regions starting today: Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), and Middle East (UAE).

Amazon Inspector now offers continuous monitoring of your Amazon EC2 instances for software vulnerabilities without installing an agent or additional software. Currently, Inspector leverages the widely deployed AWS Systems Manager (SSM) agent to assess your EC2 instances for third-party software vulnerabilities. With this expansion, Inspector now offers two scan modes for EC2 scanning, hybrid scan mode and agent-based scan mode. In hybrid scan mode, Inspector relies on SSM agents to collect information from instances to perform vulnerability assessments and automatically switches to agentless scanning for instances that do not have SSM agents installed or configured. For agentless scanning, Inspector takes snapshots of EBS volumes to collect software application inventory from the instances to perform vulnerability assessments. For agent-based scan mode, Inspector only scans instances that have a SSM agent installed and configured. New customers enabling EC2 scanning are configured in hybrid mode by default, while existing customers can migrate to hybrid mode by simply visiting the EC2 settings page within the Inspector console. Once enabled, Inspector automatically discovers all your EC2 instances and starts evaluating them for software vulnerabilities.

Today Amazon CodeCatalyst announces support for approval gates within a workflow. Workflows provide an automated procedure for building, testing, and deploying code as part of a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) system. Approval gates pause the workflow run at the gate so that a user can validate whether it should be allowed to proceed.

The Amazon Time Sync Service now supports clock synchronization within microseconds of UTC on 87 additional Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance types in supported regions, including all C7i, M7i, R7i, C7a, M7a, R7a, and M7g instances.

Today, AWS announced Amazon Route 53 Profiles, a new offering that allows you to define a standard DNS configuration, in the form of a Profile, that may include Route 53 private hosted zone (PHZ) associations, Route 53 Resolver forwarding rules, and Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall rule groups, and apply this configuration to multiple VPCs in the same AWS Region. You can also share Profiles across AWS accounts using AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM).

Today, AWS End User Computing services announced availability of two larger, more powerful instance types for Amazon WorkSpaces Web. These new instance types provide higher performance options to help customers run demanding workloads, helping to deliver significant performance improvements for use cases like streaming audio or video, real-time collaboration, screen sharing, video conferencing, or processing large files. With this launch, WorkSpaces Web now offers a total of 3 different instance types: standard.regular, standard.large, and standard.xlarge.

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R6gd instances are available in the Europe (Zurich) Region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton2 processors and are built on the AWS Nitro System. The Nitro System is a collection of AWS designed hardware and software innovations that enables the delivery of efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. R6gd instances provide local SSD storage and are ideal for memory-intensive workloads such as open-source databases, in-memory caches, and real time big data analytics that need access to high-speed, low latency storage. These instances offer up to 25 Gbps of network bandwidth, up to 19 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), up to 512 GiB RAM, and up to 3.8TB of NVMe SSD local instance storage.

Amazon Personalize is excited to announce automatic training for solutions. With automatic training, developers can set a cadence for their Personalize solutions to automatically retrain using the latest data from their dataset group. This process creates a newly trained machine learning (ML) model, also known as a solution version, and maintains the relevance of Amazon Personalize recommendations for end users. 

Amazon SageMaker enables SageMaker Projects in the updated SageMaker Studio experience. Prior to this SageMaker Projects were available only in SageMaker Studio classic.

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Roles Anywhere now provides the capability to define a set of mapping rules, allowing you to specify which data is extracted from your X.509 end-entity certificates. The data that is mapped is referred to as attributes and used as session tags in the IAM policy condition in order to allow or deny permissions. These attributes can be in one of the subject, issuer, or subject alternative name (SAN) fields of the X.509 certificate.

Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region, giving government customers and their partners the benefits of Amazon SES.

Today, AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) announces support of AWS Outposts racks. With this launch, you can now set your data replication and recovery destinations to AWS Outposts racks, in addition to using AWS Regions and Availability Zones where AWS DRS is available.

You can now create Amazon S3 Access Grants in the Middle East (UAE), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Hyderabad, and Spain Regions. 

Today, we are excited to announce that customers will now be able to use Apache Livy to submit their Apache Spark jobs to Amazon EMR on EKS, in addition to using StartJobRun API, Spark Operator, Spark Submit and Interactive Endpoints. With this launch, customers will be able to use a REST interface to easily submit Spark jobs or snippets of Spark code, retrieve results synchronously or asynchronously while continuing to get all of the Amazon EMR on EKS benefits such as EMR optimized Spark runtime, SSL secured Livy endpoint, programmatic set-up experience etc.

AWS Glue Studio Notebooks provides interactive job authoring in AWS Glue, which helps simplify the process of developing data integration jobs. Studio Notebooks is generally available in the following 6 AWS regions starting today: Middle East (UAE), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Israel (Tel Aviv), Europe (Spain) and Europe (Zurich).

AWS Resilience Hub is now a HIPAA eligible service, enabling healthcare and life sciences organizations to now use AWS Resilience Hub to run sensitive workloads regulated under the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). AWS maintains a standards-based risk management program to ensure that the HIPAA-eligible services specifically support HIPAA administrative, technical, and physical safeguards. 

AWS Partner Central has enhanced the user management experience in AWS Partner Central with a modernized look and feel and more customized capabilities. Now, alliance leads and alliance team users can assign specific user roles with distinctive permission sets and seamlessly invite new users to register via email, specifying a role assignment upon registration. These updates simplify and provide efficient user management through bulk actions and personalized role assignments.

Starting today, the next generation of the Meta Llama models, Llama 3, is now available via Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, a machine learning (ML) hub that offers pretrained models, built-in algorithms, and pre-built solutions to help you quickly get started with ML. You can deploy and use Llama 3 foundation models with a few clicks in SageMaker Studio or programmatically through the SageMaker Python SDK.

AWS Partners with services solutions will now have additional guidance available through the tasks feature in AWS Partner Central to help expediate their self-service journey with AWS. With this release, partners in the early stages of their engagement with the AWS Partner Network (APN) will be provided with a series of personalized tasks guiding them toward achieving AWS Select Tier status. Achieving this tier unlocks additional benefits, including access to funding and programs. 

Today, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) announces support for dead-letter queue redrive for FIFO queues in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Dead-letter queue redrive is an enhanced capability to improve the dead-letter queue management experience for Amazon SQS customers. Amazon SQS already supports redriving messages from a standard dead-letter queue to a standard source queues or a standard custom destination queue. Now SQS customers can also redrive messages from a FIFO dead-letter queue to FIFO source queues or FIFO custom destination queues. 

Today, AWS announces the release of Neuron 2.18, introducing stable support (out of beta) for PyTorch 2.1, adding continuous batching with vLLM support, and adding support for speculative decoding with Llama-2-70B sample in Transformers NeuronX library.

Trusted Language Extensions for PostgreSQL (pg_tle) now supports client authentication hook that lets you run additional checks over the existing authentication process, allowing you to enhance the security posture of your databases. A hook is an internal callback mechanism available to developers for extending PostgreSQL's core functionality. By using hooks, developers can implement their own functions or procedures for use during various database operations.

Amazon WorkSpaces now offers APIs to link your AWS accounts, within the same region, so that these accounts can use the same underlying dedicated infrastructure. AWS enables you to run your Bring Your Own License (BYOL) WorkSpaces on infrastructure that is dedicated to you in the AWS Cloud, and these new APIs make it easier for the you to use your dedicated infrastructure efficiently. 

Today, we are announcing the availability of the Amazon Neptune connector for Nodestream, the Parquet input file format for Nodestream, and the Nodestream Security Bill Of Material (SBOM) plug-in for CycloneDX and SPDX file formats.

AWS Storage Gateway expands availability to the AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region enabling customers to deploy and manage hybrid cloud storage for their on-premises workloads.

Starting today, Partners can leverage the AWS Partner CRM Connector for Salesforce to create offers for future dated agreements and agreement based offers, providing greater flexibility and control over offer management and integration within AWS Marketplace. Future dated agreements allows you to schedule service start dates to begin in the future. Partners can also access their agreements and create agreement-based offers for SaaS Contract products, with or without consumption, across multiple seller accounts, enabling buyers to replace existing agreements when they accept the offer.

Amazon Data Firehose (Firehose) now offers direct integration with Snowflake Snowpipe Streaming. Firehose enables customers to reliably capture, transform, and deliver data streams into Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, Splunk, and other destinations for analytics. With this new feature, customers can stream clickstream, application, and AWS service logs from multiple sources, including Kinesis Data Streams, to Snowflake. With a few clicks, customers can setup a Firehose stream to deliver data to Snowflake. Firehose automatically scales to stream gigabytes of data, and records are available in Snowflake within seconds.

Starting today, customers can receive granular cost visibility for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) in the AWS Cost and Usage Reports (CUR), enabling you to analyze, optimize, and chargeback cost and usage for your Kubernetes applications. With AWS Split Cost Allocation Data for Amazon EKS, customers can now allocate application costs to individual business units and teams based on how Kubernetes applications consume shared EC2 CPU and memory resources.

AWS Config supports 35 new resource types in advanced queries. Advanced queries within AWS Config is a feature that allows you to search the current configuration metadata and compliance state of your AWS resources based on their configuration properties.

Accessibility Conformance Reports (ACRs) for AWS products and services are now available on AWS Artifact, a self-service portal for AWS compliance-related information. ACRs are documents that demonstrate the accessibility of AWS services.

We are excited to announce that AWS Mainframe Modernization service is now available with greater control of managed runtime environments that run modernized mainframe applications.

We’re excited to announce the release of the SimSpace Weaver app SDK v1.17.0. This release reorganizes the app SDK distributable package to simplify onboarding for new users and contains ready-to-use samples that you can use as templates for your projects.

Today, AWS announces the AWS Project Development Kit (PDK) blueprints in Amazon CodeCatalyst. The AWS PDK provides building blocks for common patterns along with development tools to manage and build your projects. You can now use the AWS PDK in CodeCatalyst through the PDK blueprints, enabling you to compose one or more such blueprints together to create an application comprising of a React website, Smithy API, and the supporting CDK infrastructure to deploy the application to AWS. You can get started by creating a PDK backed project in CodeCatalyst. For more information, see the Blueprints documentation and PDK tutorial.

Amazon SageMaker Studio’s JupyterLab notebooks now come with a built-in SQL extension with which data scientists can seamlessly discover, explore, and transform data from multiple data sources using SQL and Python right from the notebooks.

AWS CloudFormation enhances ChangeSets to  provide a detailed preview of the actions that CloudFormation will take in a deployment. This launch helps improve your ability to assess whether a deployment will cause unintended changes to running resources.

Amazon Cognito is now available in Europe (Spain) Region. Amazon Cognito makes it easy to add authentication, authorization, and user management to your web and mobile apps. Amazon Cognito scales to millions of users and supports sign-in with social identity providers such as Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon, and enterprise identity providers via standards such as SAML 2.0 and OpenID Connect.

All AWS customers who navigate to Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor console can now view the internet weather map, at no charge, which shares a 24-hour global snapshot of internet latency and availability outages. The map lets you see, at a glance, recent internet issues across the world, including specific cities and service providers.

Starting today, AWS Network Manager is available in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. AWS Network Manager reduces the operational complexity of managing global networks across AWS and on-premises locations. It provides a single global view of your private network. You can visualize your global network in a topology diagram and monitor your network using CloudWatch Metrics and Events for network topology changes, routing updates, and connection status updates. 

Today, Amazon Athena announced federated query pass-through, a new feature that allows entire queries to be executed directly on the underlying data source. Federated query pass-through allows you to take advantage of the unique functions, query language, and performance capabilities of different data sources, and can result in faster query execution and less data processed by Athena.

Amazon Cognito is now available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region. Amazon Cognito makes it easy to add authentication, authorization, and user management to your web and mobile apps. Amazon Cognito scales to millions of users and supports sign-in with social identity providers such as Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon, and enterprise identity providers via standards such as SAML 2.0 and OpenID Connect.

Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) now offers larger environment sizes, giving customers of the managed service the ability to define a greater number of workflows in each Apache Airflow environment, supporting more complex tasks that can utilize increased resources. 

On April 16, 2024 Amazon announced quarterly security and critical updates for Amazon Corretto Long-Term Supported (LTS) and Feature Release (FR) versions of OpenJDK. Corretto 22.0.1, 21.0.3, 17.0.11, 11.0.23, 8u412 are now available for download. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK. 

Today, AWS Well-Architected introduces a new connector for Jira, which helps you create a closed-loop mechanism to efficiently manage and track your risks over time. You can now configure the Well-Architected Tool to generate Jira tickets and send updates directly to the Well-Architected Tool as tickets are resolved.

Anthropic’s Claude 3 Opus foundation model, the most advanced and intelligent model in the Claude 3 Family, is now available on Amazon Bedrock. The Claude 3 family of models (Claude 3 Opus, Claude 3 Sonnet, and Claude 3 Haiku) is the next generation of state-of-the-art models from Anthropic. Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models from leading AI companies, like Anthropic, along with a broad set of capabilities that provide you with the easiest way to build and scale generative AI applications.

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Oracle now supports version 23.2 of Oracle Application Express (APEX) for 19c and 21c versions of Oracle Database. Using APEX, developers can build applications entirely within their web browser.

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports additional regions for Oracle Data Guard Switchover and Automated Backups of replica instances (read-only and mounted) deployed within an Availability Zone, or in separate Availability Zones of a given Region, or in separate AWS Regions.

A new minor version of Microsoft SQL Server is now available on Amazon RDS for SQL Server, providing performance enhancements and security fixes. Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports the latest minor version of SQL Server 2022 across the Express, Web, Standard, and Enterprise editions.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for Oracle, a managed database service for legacy, custom, and packaged applications that require access to the underlying operating system and database environment, now supports Oracle Database Standard Edition 2 (SE2).

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) is now available in Canada West(Calgary) Region. Amazon MSK is a fully managed service for Apache Kafka and Kafka Connect that makes it easier for you to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka as a data store. Amazon MSK is fully compatible with Apache Kafka, which enables you to more quickly migrate your existing Apache Kafka workloads to Amazon MSK with confidence or build new ones from scratch. With Amazon MSK, you spend more time building innovative streaming applications and less time managing Kafka clusters. 

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now offers memory optimized X2iedn instances in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Jakarta and Osaka), Europe (Milan and Paris), US West (N. California), AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West).

Amazon QuickSight now supports account instances of IAM Identity Center when creating a new subscription to QuickSight. Administrators can sign up for QuickSight and choose an account instance of IAM Identity Center that exists in the same AWS account as their QuickSight subscription. Account instances support isolated deployments of applications in a single AWS account, leveraging IAM Identity Center workforce identity and access portal features. Account instances are bound to a single AWS account and are used only to manage user and group access for applications in the same account and AWS region.

We are excited to announce AWS HealthOmics now supports reading sequence store objects using Amazon S3 APIs. AWS HealthOmics is a fully managed service that empowers healthcare and life science organizations to store, query, analyze omics data, and generate insights to improve health and drive scientific discoveries. With this release, customers can more easily integrate HealthOmics data stores into their bioinformatics ecosystem while benefiting from the domain-specific metadata, cost-savings, and scalability.

AWS PrivateLink now supports Amazon QuickSight, providing private connectivity between the QuickSight website, virtual private clouds (VPCs) or on-premises networks without exposing traffic to the public internet. With this integration, administrators can also use VPC endpoint policies to restrict access to QuickSight accounts that are not authorized on their network. 

Today, AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) announces new flexibility, visibility, and pricing for automatic key rotation. You can now customize the frequency of rotation period between 90 days to 7 years (2560 days) as well as invoke key rotation on demand for customer managed KMS keys. Lastly, you can now see the history of all previous rotations for any KMS key that has been rotated. 

Today, AWS Resource Explorer has expanded the availability of resource search and discovery to 10 additional AWS Regions: Africa (Cape Town), Middle East (UAE), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Milan), Israel (Tel Aviv), Canada West (Calgary), Europe (Spain), and Europe (Zurich). With this launch, customers can turn on Resource Explorer to search for and discover resources across all commercial AWS Regions.

AWS Step Functions announces an optimized integration for AWS Elemental MediaConvert, enabling video transcode jobs in your workflow. With this integration, customers can easily build automated, resilient media workflows using the visual authoring and operator experience of Step Functions. With the new Run a Job (.sync) integration pattern for the MediaConvert CreateJob API, Step Functions will wait for asynchronous MediaConvert transcoding jobs to complete before progressing to the next step, simplifying the orchestration of multi-step media processing pipelines.

Amazon Detective, a managed security service that helps analysts investigate potential security issues across AWS, has introduced a new feature to support investigating threats detected by Amazon GuardDuty's EC2 Runtime Monitoring capability. This expansion enhances Detective's ability to provide visualizations and context for investigating runtime threats targeting EC2 instances.

Starting today, AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports HLS Interstitials for video-on-demand (VOD) streams. This feature, which you can enable as an option, automatically conditions manifests so ad break pods are decoupled from the main content stream. By separating the ad content from the main video stream, HLS Interstitials provides more efficient ad payload delivery reducing video start-up time when compared to traditional Server-Side Ad Insertion and reduced buffering or errors during ad breaks compared to Client-Side Ad Insertion.

AWS Transfer Family now provides you with the option to import and use a trading partner’s public, self-signed TLS certificate for sending Applicability Statement 2 (AS2) messages to their server over HTTPS. Additionally, you can now choose to encrypt messages sent to your partner’s server using the 3DES cipher. By default, AS2 connectors will encrypt messages with the AES128 cipher unless you select 3DES for purposes of backwards compatibility with your partner’s existing AS2 implementation. These capabilities add to AWS Transfer Family’s existing list of AS2 interoperability features and enable you to reliably connect with trading partners that require these specific security configurations.

Amazon Braket now provides access to three new experimental capabilities via Braket Direct, offering increased flexibility and control when programming on QuEra’s Aquila device. With today’s launch, you can get access to local detuning, taller geometries, and tighter geometries - opening up new research opportunities, such as advanced combinatorial optimization problems that are relevant for various industry applications.

Today, AWS announces the release of workflow monitor for live video, a media-centric tool to simplify and elevate the monitoring of your video workloads. Accessible via the AWS Elemental MediaLive console and API, workflow monitor discovers and visualizes resources. It creates signal maps showing video across AWS Elemental MediaConnect, MediaLive, and MediaPackage along with Amazon S3 and Amazon CloudFront to provide end-to-end visibility. With the workflow monitor, you can create your own alarm templates or start from a set of recommended alarms, and build custom templates for alarm notifications.

AWS HealthImaging has upgraded its search functionality so that customers can more easily find and access their medical imaging data in the cloud. These enhancements simplify finding any patient exam, for use as a clinical prior, to inform a clinical workflow, or for processing by medical imaging AI/ML models.

Today, AWS announces the release of Neuron 2.18, introducing stable support (out of beta) for PyTorch 2.1 and adding support for speculative decoding with Llama-2-70B sample in Transformers NeuronX library.

AWS Lambda functions can now scale up to 12x faster than before in response to unpredictable traffic in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. With this improvement each function can scale up to a rate of 1,000 concurrent executions every 10 seconds, up to your account concurrency limit.

Starting today, customers can protect their AWS Elemental MediaPackage origins by using CloudFront Origin Access Control (OAC) to only allow access from designated CloudFront distributions.

We are excited to announce that Amazon EMR on EKS simplified the authentication and authorization user experience by integrating with Amazon EKS's improved cluster access management controls. With this launch, Amazon EMR on EKS will use EKS access management controls to automatically obtain the necessary permissions to run Amazon EMR applications on the EKS cluster.

Users of AWS IAM Identity Center can now take advantage of a streamlined AWS access portal and time-saving shortcut links to navigate directly to destinations in the AWS Management Console in accordance with their permissions. 

Starting today, customers can protect their AWS Lambda URL origins by using CloudFront Origin Access Control (OAC) to only allow access from designated CloudFront distributions.