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Amazon MQ now provides support for RabbitMQ version 3.9.16, which includes several fixes to the previously supported version, RabbitMQ 3.9.13.

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Today, we are announcing the general availability of AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) for metrics, a secure, production-ready, AWS-supported distribution of the OpenTelemetry project. With this launch, customers can use OpenTelemetry APIs and SDKs in Java, .Net, and JavaScript to collect and send metrics to Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, and other monitoring destinations supported by the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP). Part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), OpenTelemetry provides open source APIs, libraries, and agents to collect distributed traces and metrics for application and infrastructure monitoring. With ADOT, you can instrument your applications just once to send metrics and traces to multiple monitoring solutions and use auto-instrumentation agents to collect traces and metrics without changing your code. Use AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry to instrument your applications running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).

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Amazon QuickSight now supports 1-click public embedding, a feature that allows you to embed your dashboards into public applications, wikis, and portals without any coding or development. Once enabled, anyone on the internet can start accessing these embedded dashboards with to up-to-date information instantly, without server deployments or infrastructure licensing needed! 1-click public embedding helps you empower your end users with access to insights in minutes.

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AWS Backup now allows you to protect your Amazon FSx for OpenZFS file systems, helping you meet your centralized data protection and regulatory compliance needs. Using AWS Backup’s seamless integration with AWS Organizations, you can centrally create and manage immutable backups of Amazon FSx for OpenZFS file systems across all your accounts, protect your data from inadvertent or malicious actions, and restore the data with a few simple clicks. Additionally, you can generate unified auditor-ready reports to demonstrate compliance status of your organizational data protection policies.

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AWS Backup now allows you to protect your Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems, helping you meet your centralized data protection and regulatory compliance needs. Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is a fully managed AWS service that allows you to run NetApp ONTAP file systems in the AWS Cloud. You can now use AWS Backup’s policy-based capabilities to centrally protect Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP along with other AWS services for storage, database, and compute that AWS Backup supports. You can protect your Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems with immutable backups, and generate auditor-ready reports to prove compliance of your data protection policies.

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AWS App Mesh now supports IPv6 allowing customers to support workloads running in IPv6 networks and to invoke App Mesh APIs over IPv6. This helps customers to meet IPv6 compliance requirements, and removes the need for expensive networking equipment to handle address translation between IPv4 and IPv6. AWS App Mesh is a service mesh that provides application-level networking to make it easier for your services to communicate with each other across multiple types of compute infrastructure. AWS App Mesh standardizes how your services communicate, giving you end-to-end visibility and options to tune for high-availability of your applications.

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Amazon Redshift ML enables you to create, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models using familiar SQL commands. With Amazon Redshift ML, you can leverage Amazon SageMaker, a fully managed machine learning service, without moving your data or learning new skills. Amazon Redshift now supports Amazon SageMaker Linear Learner algorithm for creating models with Amazon Redshift ML.

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AWS Resilience Hub now supports Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Route 53, AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery, AWS Backup, and the ability to use Terraform as a source to upload applications. With this expansion of supported resources, you can use Resilience Hub to prepare and protect even more of your applications from disruptions.  

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Developers can now use the AWS Encryption SDK for .NET to help protect their data. This open-source release makes it easier for developers to encrypt and decrypt their data when building applications using the .NET developer platform.

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Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports Predictive Scaling in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. Predictive scaling can proactively scale out your Auto Scaling group to be ready for upcoming demand. This allows you to avoid the need to over-provision capacity, resulting in lower EC2 cost, while ensuring your application’s responsiveness. (Previously, Predictive Scaling was only available via AWS Auto Scaling Plans and only in public regions.) Support in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region allows U.S. government agencies and contractors to run sensitive workloads by addressing their specific regulatory and compliance requirements.

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Amazon Redshift has launched support for Snapshot Isolation for concurrent transactions. Amazon Redshift prevents dirty reads, non-repeatable reads, and phantom reads according to the SQL standards. The two options that Amazon Redshift offers to serialize transactions are SERIALIZABLE and SNAPSHOT ISOLATION. The SERIALIZABLE option will implement strict serializability, where a transaction could fail if the result could not be mapped to a serial order of the concurrently running transactions. The SNAPSHOT ISOLATION option will allow higher concurrency, where concurrent modifications to different rows in the same table would complete successfully. Under both options, transactions will continue to operate on the latest committed version, or a snapshot, of the database.

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Amazon CloudWatch is introducing enhancements to the console experience, which improve dashboard data visualizations and console navigation. The enhancements include new dashboard widgets as well as more options to access frequently used dashboards, log groups and alarms.

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Starting today, Amazon EC2 I4i metal instances are available in Amazon Web Services (AWS) Regions – US East (Ohio and N. Virginia), US West (Oregon) and Europe (Ireland). Designed for storage I/O intensive workloads, I4i instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code named Ice Lake) with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz, offer up to 30% better compute price performance over I3 instances, and always-on memory encryption using Intel Total Memory Encryption (TME). I4i metal instances deliver the highest local storage performance within Amazon EC2 and are designed for databases such as MySQL, Oracle DB, and Microsoft SQL Server, and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, Couchbase, Aerospike, and Redis where low latency local NVMe storage is needed in order to meet application service level agreements (SLAs).

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Amazon Neptune is now in scope for FedRAMP High in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) Regions, and FedRAMP Moderate in the US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California), and US West (Oregon) Regions. You can now use Amazon Neptune to build applications for workloads that require FedRAMP High or Moderate authorization. This also accredits Amazon Neptune as a Department of Defense Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide Impact Level 2 (DoD SRG IL-2) service in these regions.

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Today, we are announcing new functionality in AWS Control Tower that provides you the flexibility to use your existing security and logging accounts, or to have AWS Control Tower create new accounts on your behalf when setting up Control Tower or extending Control Tower governance to your existing AWS environment. The Security account is used as a restricted account that’s designed to give your security and compliance teams read and write access to all accounts in your landing zone. The Logging account works as a repository, storing logs of API activities and resource configurations from all accounts in your landing zone. 

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AWS Glue can now connect to Apache Kafka using additional client authentication mechanisms. AWS Glue now supports SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) using either SCRAM (Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism) or GSSAPI (Kerberos).

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Today, we are pleased to announce the general availability of AWS support for Kubeflow v1.4. Kubeflow on AWS streamlines data science tasks and helps build highly reliable, secure, portable, and scalable ML systems with reduced operational overheads through integrations with AWS managed services. You can use this Kubeflow distribution to build ML systems on top of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) to build, train, tune, and deploy ML models for a wide variety of use cases, including computer vision, natural language processing, speech translation, and financial modeling.

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Amazon Lex provides automatic speech recognition (ASR) and natural language understanding (NLU) capabilities so you can build applications and interactive voice response (IVR) solutions with engaging user experiences. Starting today, you can programmatically provide phrases as hints during a live interaction to influence the transcription of spoken input. For example, when interacting with a banking IVR, a customer might use a nickname (“Smythe’s checking”) for the destination account . You can execute business logic to identify all the payee nicknames associated with the caller’s account and supply these as hints, improving transcription of names. Better recognition drives efficient conversations and ultimately increases customer satisfaction.

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Starting today, memory optimized Amazon EC2 X2idn and X2iedn instances are available in additional regions – Asia Pacific (Seoul, Sydney), Canada (Central), Europe (London, Stockholm, Milan), South America (São Paulo) and AWS GovCloud (US-East). X2idn and X2iedn instances are designed for memory-intensive workloads and deliver improvements in performance, price performance, and cost per GiB of memory compared to previous generation X1 instances. These new instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Ice Lake) and deliver up to 50% higher compute price performance than comparable X1 instances. X2idn has a 16:1 ratio of memory to vCPU and X2iedn has a 32:1 ratio, making these instances a great fit for workloads such as in-memory databases and analytics, big data processing engines, and Electronic Design Automation (EDA) workloads.

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Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) Anywhere now allows you to enable Amazon-curated software packages that extend the core functionalities of Kubernetes on your EKS Anywhere clusters. You can install the Harbor package as a local container registry starting today, with the Emissary-Ingress package and the support for service type load balancing through MetalLB coming in the next few months. More curated packages may be added over time based on customer demand.

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