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AWS Compute Optimizer introduces memory customizability for EC2 rightsizing recommendations

28 March 2024 @ 9:26 pm

AWS Compute Optimizer now supports customizable EC2 rightsizing recommendations based on memory utilization. Compute Optimizer considers memory utilization metrics to generate rightsizing recommendations for EC2 instances when you enable memory utilization monitoring through AWS CloudWatch Agent or your preferred observability products. This launch enables you to identify additional savings and performance improvement opportunities through EC2 rightsizing recommendations by adjusting how Compute Optimizer processes memory utilization data. You can now configure EC2 rightsizing recommendations based on memory utilization at the organizational, account, or regional level. 

Amazon RDS adds Oracle Database SE2 License-Included option in additional regions

28 March 2024 @ 9:12 pm

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now offers Oracle Database Standard Edition 2 (SE2) with the License-Included (LI) purchase option in additional AWS Regions and for additional instance classes. R6i instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Europe (Zurich), and Israel (Tel Aviv). T3 instances are now supported in Europe (Zurich) and Israel (Tel Aviv).

Amazon EC2 M7a instances are now available in additional regions

28 March 2024 @ 8:26 pm

Starting today, the general-purpose Amazon EC2 M7a instances are now available in Europe (Frankfurt, Spain, Stockholm) regions. M7a instances, powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors (code-named Genoa) with a maximum frequency of 3.7 GHz, deliver up to 50% higher performance compared to M6a instances.

AWS Billing and Cost Management Data Exports now supports AWS CloudFormation

28 March 2024 @ 8:24 pm

Starting today, you can create and configure exports of your billing and cost management data using a CloudFormation template with Data Exports resources and APIs. With CloudFormation, you can use a programming language or simple text file to automate the creation of exports in a secure, efficient, and repeatable way. This allows you to configure full infrastructure stacks for billing and cost management with exports as data inputs to analytics and BI tools like Amazon Athena and Amazon QuickSight. The new resource type available for deployment in CloudFormation is an “Export”.

AWS announces a new Local Zone in Miami

28 March 2024 @ 7:26 pm

Today, AWS announces the general availability of a new AWS Local Zone in Miami, Florida. This new Local Zone supports Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C6i, M6i, R6i, and C6gn instances and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume types gp2, gp3, io1, sc1, and st1. You can also access Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), Application Load Balancer, and AWS Direct Connect in this new Local Zone to support a broad set of workloads at the edge.

AWS CloudFormation Console now supports visualization of stacks in Application Composer

28 March 2024 @ 7:16 pm

Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. launches the general availability of AWS Application Composer in the AWS CloudFormation console. Application Composer helps you visually compose and configure AWS services into modern applications backed by infrastructure as code. This integration provides a complete visual experience within the CloudFormation console and introduces benefits such as a modern user interface and integration with AWS Step Functions Workflow Studio.

Amazon SNS now supports FIFO topics in Canada West (Calgary) region

28 March 2024 @ 7:05 pm

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) now supports FIFO (first in, first out) topics in Canada West (Calgary) region.

Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock now supports metadata filtering

28 March 2024 @ 6:16 pm

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, context-specific, and accurate responses. Knowledge Bases now supports metadata filtering, which improves retrieval accuracy by ensuring the documents are relevant to the query. 

AWS now supports Slack Connect for AWS sales to collaborate with customer and partners

28 March 2024 @ 5:00 pm

AWS Partners and customers can now collaborate in real-time with AWS account managers and partner managers via Slack channels initiated by AWS sales team members. This capability builds on Slack’s native functionality and incorporates additional controls to safeguard the confidentiality of discussions by ensuring that only necessary participants are involved.

New ECS-Optimized AMIs support AL2 Kernel 5.10 for GPU and Inf Instances

28 March 2024 @ 4:59 pm

Today Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) announced two new Amazon ECS-optimized Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). We now provide new variants of the Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) GPU and Inferentia AMIs that have an updated Linux kernel (5.10). The ECS-optimized GPU AMI contains pre-configured Nvidia kernel drivers, the Docker GPU runtime, and the default version of CUDA. The ECS Optimized Inferentia AMI comes pre-baked with all the necessary AWS Neuron packages for running on Inferentia EC2 instances. Kernel 5.10 brings performance improvements and security features for processor architectures powering the latest generations of Amazon EC2 instances.