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Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) now supports the ability to replicate images in private ECR repositories across accounts and/or regions, between the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Storing images helps applications start up faster as image download time is reduced due to lower latency from in-region pulls. Geographically dispersed images also help you meet backup and disaster recovery requirements for your applications. Amazon ECR Replication feature provides a simple and reliable way to replicate images, and eliminates the operational burden of manually pushing images across multiple regions and accounts.

With a few clicks in the Amazon ECR Console, or using the Amazon CLI, you can specify the destination account and/or region for a source repository. Once replication is turned on, ECR will automatically replicate all new images pushed in source repository to the destination region. Additionally, ECR offers granular control to replicate specific repositories. You can use repository name prefixes as filters to specify which repositories to replicate. To learn more about using replication in ECR, see our documentation.

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Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) now supports registry policy v2 in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, allowing customers to manage IAM permissions for all ECR API actions and simplify ECR permission management.

ECR registry policy allows customers to control usage of ECR private registries by granting permissions to perform registry-level actions to an AWS IAM principal. Registry policy version 1 (v1), only supported three actions: ReplicateImage, BatchImportUpstreamImage, and CreateRepository. Now, the new registry policy version 2 (v2) supports every ECR action. Using registry policy v2 makes it easier for customers to control permissions across all repositories in an ECR registry, allowing customers to improve security posture and save time versus configuring permissions individually across multiple repositories.

To get started, customers can migrate from registry policy v1 to v2 using the ECR management console or with the new ECR put-account-setting API. New ECR accounts automatically use registry policy v2. To learn more about ECR’s registry policy and permissions, see our Amazon ECR User Guide.

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AWS announces a new EC2 feature for Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) that enables flexible queue allocation per Elastic Network Interface (ENI) on EC2 instances. ENA queues, which are key components of ENIs, efficiently manage network traffic by load-balancing sent and received data across available queues. This network interface feature optimizes networking performance by flexibly allocating multiple transmit and receive ENA queues, efficiently distributing packet processing across vCPUs. Customers now have granular control over their network resources and instance performance, allowing them to align ENA queue allocation with specific workload requirements.

Prior to this announcement, customers could configure additional ENIs for their instances, but ENA queues were statically allocated per ENI without flexibility in distribution. Now, customers can dynamically allocate ENA queues across ENIs from their instance’s total queue pool, with the total available queues varying by instance type and size. This flexible ENA queue allocation enables maximum vCPU utilization through optimized resource distribution. Network-intensive applications can be allocated more queues, while CPU-intensive applications can operate with fewer queues.

EC2 Flexible Queues is available in all AWS Commercial Regions. To learn more and for supported instance types, review the latest EC2 Documentation.
 

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Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the Equinix IL4 data center near Istanbul, Turkey. By connecting your network to AWS at the new location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones. This site is the first AWS Direct Connect location within Turkey. This Direct Connect location offers dedicated 10 Gbps and 100 Gbps connections with MACsec encryption available.

The Direct Connect service enables you to establish a private, physical network connection between AWS and your data center, office, or colocation environment. These private connections can provide a more consistent network experience than those made over the public internet.

For more information on the over 149 Direct Connect locations worldwide, visit the locations section of the Direct Connect product detail pages. Or, visit our getting started page to learn more about how to purchase and deploy Direct Connect.
 

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Today, AWS announced the ability to bring your own image (BYOI) to Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio, part of the next generation of Amazon SageMaker. This feature benefits customers who have regulatory and compliance requirements or who prefer not to use the framework containers that come with the default SageMaker Distribution image.

BYOI provides you the flexibility to customize the image by removing unnecessary frameworks and adding new dependencies or security containers as per your requirement. It also provides the code reproducibility guarantees on the containers that you use across development and production environements. The SageMaker Distribution image is available on GitHub, you can download the image inspect its contents and use it to build your custom image. The base image contains all the necessary packages and extensions which are required to execute the code on SageMaker Unified Studio, therefore we recommend you to build your own image using the SageMaker Distribution version 2.6 and onwards.

The ability to bring your own images is available in all AWS Commercial Regions where the next generation of Amazon SageMaker is available. See the supported regions list for more details. For instructions on how to get started, visit the Amazon SageMaker documentation.
 

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Today, AWS announces two complementary capabilities in the next generation of Amazon SageMaker that enhance the development experience for analytics, machine learning (ML), and GenAI teams: Code Editor and Multiple Spaces support.

The Code Editor, based on Code-OSS (Visual Studio Code – Open Source), provides a lightweight and powerful IDE with familiar shortcuts and terminal access, along with advanced debugging capabilities and refactoring tools. Teams can boost their productivity by accessing thousands of Visual Studio Code–compatible extensions from the Open VSX extension gallery. The Code Editor enables version control and cross-team collaboration through GitHub, GitLab or BitBucket repositories, while offering preconfigured Amazon SageMaker distribution for popular ML frameworks.

To maximize the benefits of Code Editor alongside other coding interfaces in Unified Studio, including JupyterLab , SageMaker now supports multiple spaces per user per project, allowing users to manage parallel work-streams with different computational needs. Each space maintains a 1-to-1 relationship with an application instance, enabling users to efficiently organize their storage and resource requirements. This enhancement provides the flexibility to access multiple applications and instances simultaneously, improving workflow management and productivity.

Code Editor and Multiple Spaces support are available in all Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio domains. For more information about AWS Regions where these features are available, see the AWS Regions table. To learn more, visit the Developer Guide.
 

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Today, Amazon SageMaker and Amazon DataZone added support for multiple domain features through AWS CloudFormation. Customers can now use AWS CloudFormation to model and manage domain units and their owners. Additionally, customers can set the AWS IAM Identity Center instance for a domain. Programmatically deploying these resources through AWS CloudFormation facilitates secure, efficient, and consistent provisioning of Amazon SageMaker and Amazon DataZone domains.

As an Amazon SageMaker or Amazon DataZone administrator, you can now create AWS CloudFormation scripts to assign the domain’s IAM Identity Center instance appropriate for your single sign-on user population. Administrators can then create and manage their domain units and enable users to organize, create, search, and find data assets and projects associated with business units or teams.

AWS CloudFormation support for these features is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon SageMaker and Amazon DataZone are available.

To learn more, visit Amazon SageMaker and get started with AWS CloudFormation documentation.

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Today, CloudWatch RUM, a real-time monitoring service that visualizes and analyzes user interactions with web applications, announces support for Interaction to Next Paint (INP) web vital monitoring. This crucial metric would help customers measure the latency of a page’s response to user interactions, offering insights into the end-user experience of their web application.

INP is a metric that assesses a page’s overall responsiveness to user interactions by observing the latency of all click, tap, and keyboard interactions that occur throughout the lifespan of a user’s visit to a page. The final INP value is the longest interaction observed, ignoring outliers. This new metric joins the existing set of core web vitals tracked by CloudWatch RUM. The time series graph for INP allows customers to instantly assess whether page responsiveness is positive, tolerable, or frustrating based on a percentile aggregate of the metric. Furthermore, customers can click on specific data points to access a list of correlated INP events, leading them directly to affected user sessions for in-depth analysis of issues and their impact on user experience. Users can start capturing INP by upgrading the aws-rum-web to v1.23.0 at minimum, which is now available via NPM and CDN.

The new INP metric is available in all AWS Regions where CloudWatch RUM is available at no additional cost to customers.

To learn how to configure the the CloudWatch RUM web client visit this documentation or get started using the user guide.

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Amazon Connect now makes it easier to deliver high-quality voice experiences in Omnissa Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environments. Amazon Connect automatically optimizes audio by redirecting media from your agent’s local desktop to Connect, simplifying the agent experience and improving audio quality by reducing network hops. Agents can simply log into their Omnissa remote desktop application (e.g., Omnissa Horizon) and start accepting calls using your custom agent user interface (i.e., custom Contact Control Panel) using APIs in the Amazon Connect open source JavaScript libraries.

These new features are available in all AWS regions where Amazon Connect is offered. To learn more, please see the documentation.

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Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now integrates with Amazon EventBridge, enabling you to receive near-real time notifications about changes in your cluster’s status. With this integration, you can easily track key events such as HyperPod cluster status transitions and node health changes.

SageMaker HyperPod delivers two types of notifications via EventBridge – 1. Cluster Status Change Events, that notify you when your HyperPod cluster transitions between states, such as InService or Failed. 2) Node Health Events that notify you when nodes change health status (e.g. Healthy/Unhealthy), or are automatically replaced during recovery from failures. You can also write simple EventBridge rules to trigger automated actions when these events occur.

SageMaker HyperPod events via EventBridge are now available in all AWS regions where both SageMaker HyperPod and Amazon EventBridge are generally available.

To learn more about Amazon SageMaker HyperPod’s integration with EventBridge, visit the Amazon SageMaker AI documentation.

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Customers can now create Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems in the AWS Mexico (Central) Region, providing fully managed shared storage in the cloud with the data access and management capabilities of ONTAP.

Amazon FSx makes it easier and more cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud. It supports a wide range of workloads with its reliability, security, scalability, and broad set of capabilities. Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP provides the first and only complete, fully managed NetApp ONTAP file systems in the cloud. It offers the familiar features, performance, capabilities, and APIs of ONTAP with the agility, scalability, and simplicity of an AWS service.

To learn more about Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, visit our product page, and see the AWS Region Table for complete regional availability information.
 

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Customers can now create Amazon FSx for OpenZFS file systems in the AWS Mexico (Central) Region, providing fully managed shared file storage built on the OpenZFS file system..

Amazon FSx makes it easier and more cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud. It supports a wide range of workloads with its reliability, security, scalability, and broad set of capabilities. Amazon FSx for OpenZFS provides fully managed, cost-effective, shared file storage powered by the popular OpenZFS file system, and is designed to deliver sub-millisecond latencies and multi-GB/s throughput along with rich ZFS-powered data management capabilities (like snapshots, data cloning, and compression).

To learn more about Amazon FSx for OpenZFS, visit our product page, and see the AWS Region Table for complete regional availability information.
 

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Customers can now create Amazon FSx for Lustre file systems in the AWS Mexico (Central) Region, providing fully managed shared storage with the scalability and performance of the popular Lustre file system.

Amazon FSx makes it easier and more cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud. It supports a wide range of workloads with its reliability, security, scalability, and broad set of capabilities. Amazon FSx for Lustre provides fully managed shared storage built on the world’s most popular high-performance file system, designed for fast processing of workloads such as machine learning, high performance computing (HPC), video processing, financial modeling, and electronic design automation (EDA).

To learn more about Amazon FSx for Lustre, visit our product page, and see the AWS Region Table for complete regional availability information.
 

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Customers can now create Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file systems in the AWS Mexico (Central) Region, providing fully managed shared storage built on Windows Server.

Amazon FSx makes it easier and more cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud. It supports a wide range of workloads with its reliability, security, scalability, and broad set of capabilities. Amazon FSx for Windows File Server provides fully managed, highly reliable file storage built on Windows Server and can be accessed via the industry-standard Server Message Block (SMB) protocol.

To learn more about Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, visit our product page, and see the AWS Region Table for complete regional availability information.
 

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Customers can now create Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file systems in the AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region, providing fully managed shared storage built on Windows Server.

Amazon FSx makes it easier and more cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud. It supports a wide range of workloads with its reliability, security, scalability, and broad set of capabilities. Amazon FSx for Windows File Server provides fully managed, highly reliable file storage built on Windows Server and can be accessed via the industry-standard Server Message Block (SMB) protocol.

To learn more about Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, visit our product page, and see the AWS Region Table for complete regional availability information.

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Amazon VPC Reachability Analyzer now supports the ability to exclude network resources when analyzing reachability between a source and destination, providing you greater flexibility to run reachability analyses.

VPC Reachability Analyzer is a configuration analysis feature that enables you to check network reachability between a source resource and a destination resource in your virtual private clouds (VPCs). With this launch, you can easily identify an alternative traffic path in your network. For example, if you want to identify any path from your internet gateway to Elastic Network Interfaces (ENIs) that is not passing through the network firewall for inspection, you can specify Network Firewall under resource exclusion and run the reachability analysis. If the analysis returns a reachable path, you know there is an alternative path in your network and can take required actions.

To learn more about Amazon VPC Reachability Analyzer, please visit documentation. To view Reachability Analyzer prices, visit Amazon VPC Pricing.

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Customers can now create Amazon FSx for OpenZFS file systems in the AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region, providing fully managed shared file storage built on the OpenZFS file system.

Amazon FSx makes it easier and more cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud. It supports a wide range of workloads with its reliability, security, scalability, and broad set of capabilities. Amazon FSx for OpenZFS provides fully managed, cost-effective, shared file storage powered by the popular OpenZFS file system, and is designed to deliver sub-millisecond latencies and multi-GB/s throughput along with rich ZFS-powered data management capabilities (like snapshots, data cloning, and compression).

To learn more about Amazon FSx for OpenZFS, visit our product page, and see the AWS Region Table for complete regional availability information.
 

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Customers can now create Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems in the AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region, providing fully managed shared storage in the cloud with the data access and management capabilities of ONTAP.

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP makes it easier and more cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud. It supports a wide range of workloads with its reliability, security, scalability, and broad set of capabilities. Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP provides the first and only complete, fully managed NetApp ONTAP file systems in the cloud. It offers the familiar features, performance, capabilities, and APIs of ONTAP with the agility, scalability, and simplicity of an AWS service.

To learn more about Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, visit our product page, and see the AWS Region Table for complete regional availability information.
 

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Customers can now create Amazon FSx for Lustre file systems in the AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region, providing fully managed shared storage with the scalability and performance of the popular Lustre file system.

Amazon FSx makes it easier and more cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud. It supports a wide range of workloads with its reliability, security, scalability, and broad set of capabilities. Amazon FSx for Lustre provides fully managed shared storage built on the world’s most popular high-performance file system, designed for fast processing of workloads such as machine learning, high performance computing (HPC), video processing, financial modeling, and electronic design automation (EDA).

To learn more about Amazon FSx for Lustre, visit our product page, and see the AWS Region Table for complete regional availability information.
 

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Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility), a fully managed, native JSON database that makes it simple and cost-effective to operate critical document workloads at virtually any scale without managing infrastructure, is now available in the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region. Amazon DocumentDB provides scalability and durability for mission-critical MongoDB workloads, supporting millions of requests per second and can be scaled to 15 low latency read replicas in minutes without application downtime. Storage scales automatically up to 128 TiB without any impact to your application. In addition, Amazon DocumentDB natively integrates with AWS Database Migration Service (DMS), Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, AWS Lambda, AWS Backup and more.

To learn more about Amazon DocumentDB, please visit the Amazon DocumentDB product page, and see the AWS Region Table for complete regional availability.

You can create a Amazon DocumentDB cluster from the AWS Management console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), or SDK.

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