AWS

Today we are announcing the availability of Ansible and Corretto 21 on Amazon Linux 2023 as a part of second quarterly update.

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Amazon QuickSight now supports total positioning option for both rows and columns in pivot tables, providing authors added flexibility to style and present tabular data according to their specific use cases and individual needs. Additionally, it makes it easier to compare and view totals which could otherwise be multiple scrolls or pages away. 

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Starting today, AWS Verified Access that allows you to provide secure access to your corporate applications without using VPNs is available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Asia Pacific (Singapore) regions. Built using AWS Zero Trust guiding principles, Verified Access helps you implement a work-from-anywhere model in a secure and scalable manner.

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You can now launch Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor directly from the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) console. Internet Monitor provides visibility into how internet issues impact the performance and availability for your application hosted on AWS. To use Internet Monitor, you create a monitor and associate it with one or more resources: VPCs, Network Load Balancers, Amazon CloudFront distributions, or Amazon WorkSpaces directories.

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Starting today, you can use service control policies (SCPs) to set permission guardrails with the fine-grained controls used in AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies in the AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. This feature makes it easier to meet the specific requirements of your organization’s governance rules.

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AWS unveils new capabilities for cdk8s, allowing seamless synthesis of applications into Helm charts on one hand, and native import of existing Helm charts into cdk8s applications on the other. In addition, cdk8s can now interpret deploy-time tokens of the AWS CDK and CDK For Terraform, all during the cdk8s synthesis phase. Helm stands out as a widely embraced solution for the deployment and management of Kubernetes applications. By converging cdk8s and Helm, users can enjoy a unified workflow for creating and deploying Kubernetes manifests. With the recent addition to the “cdk8s synth” command, you can transform a cdk8s app directly into a Helm Chart, ready to be integrated with Helm deployments. 

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Amazon QuickSight now supports connection to Redshift data with an IAM role. By connecting to data in QuickSight with an IAM role, administrators can enhance data security by using fine-grained IAM access policies for Redshift data sources.

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AWS Glue now supports GitLab and BitBucket, alongside GitHub and AWS CodeCommit, broadening your toolset for managing data integration pipeline deployments. AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that makes it simpler to discover, prepare, move, and integrate data from multiple sources for analytics, machine learning (ML), and application development.

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With AWS Elemental MediaTailor Channel Assembly you can now detect ad break markers that exist within VOD sources and insert ads at those existing times.

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Today, AWS announces the availability of AWS Management Console Private Access in Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. AWS Management Console Private Access is an advanced security feature that allows customers to define a set of trusted AWS accounts and organizations that can access the AWS Management Console from within their network. For example, with AWS Management Console Private Access, customers can restrict access to personal AWS accounts from the company network.

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Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for Oracle, a managed database services for legacy, custom, and packaged applications that require access to the underlying operating system and database environment, is now available in the AWS Region of Asia Pacific (Jakarta).

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Starting today, customers can use Amazon Bedrock in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) AWS Region to easily build and scale generative AI applications.

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Catalog API (CAPI) introduced a new request/response attribute “DetailsDocument” that accepts and returns a JSON object. As a developer, building on top of the APIs, you can send JSON object in CAPI StartChangeSet API request and get a JSON object in the response of DescribeEntity and DescribeChangeSet API. This capability will exist along side the current experience of sending and receiving a string object in the “Details” attribute of StartChangeSet, DescribeChangeSet and DescribeEntity APIs respectively.

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AWS HealthOmics now calculates Entity Tags (ETags) when ingesting into the sequence store. Sequence store ETags enable customers to validate that files are not altered as part of their ingestion into, storage lifecycle in, and egress from the sequence store, an important audit requirement for many clinical and life science users. The new capability calculates a hash of the file’s semantic content during sequence store imports and direct uploads, making it easier to identify when content is changed or duplicated. The ETag’s immutability, verifiability, and auto-calculation simplifies data audits, duplicate data identification, and supports customer compliance validation.

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Today, AWS launches video source replacement for AWS Elemental MediaConvert, allowing you to frame-accurately replace sections of source video with alternative content versions.

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Amazon QuickSight now supports predictive analytics using machine learning (ML) models created in Amazon SageMaker Canvas, without writing a single line of code. QuickSight authors can now export data to SageMaker Canvas, build ML models, and share them back to QuickSight for consumption. This allows you to build predictive dashboards for better insights. With this new capability, you can evolve your analytics from descriptive to predictive capabilities, enabling the entire organization with a forward-looking view of the business.

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We are excited to announce the launch of 22 new proactive controls and 10 AWS Security Hub detective controls in the AWS Control Tower controls library to help you meet regulatory requirements. These new controls are managed by AWS Control Tower and help you meet control objectives such as encrypt data in transit, encrypt data at rest, or use strong authentication. Proactive controls block non-compliant resources before they are provisioned for services such as Amazon Athena, Amazon EMR, AWS Glue, Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) and Amazon Neptune. The AWS Security Hub detective controls for services such as Amazon Neptune, Amazon Athena and Amazon RDS help you detect noncompliance of resources within your accounts.

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AWS WorkSpaces now provides bundle selection guidance within the AWS console that make it easier for administrators to choose a bundle during the WorkSpaces creation process. A WorkSpace bundle is a combination of an operating system, storage, compute, and software resources. When you launch a WorkSpace, you select the bundle that meets your needs. Today, we offer more insights about each bundle including: recommended use cases, supported communication tools, example user roles, and use cases for which specific bundles are not recommended. 

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Amazon Connect Chat now supports up to 15 out-of-the-box chat widgets, making it easy for you to customize chat experiences on different websites with just a few clicks.

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Amazon Virtual Private Cloud IP Address Manager (Amazon VPC IPAM) that makes it easier for you to plan, track, and monitor IP addresses for your AWS workloads, is now available in Israel (Tel Aviv).

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