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A brand new week begins, and the News Blog staff is preparing for AWS re:Invent! Many of us shall be there subsequent week and it will be nice to fulfill in particular person. If you’re coming, have you learnt about PeerTalk? It’s an onsite networking program for re:Invent attendees obtainable by way of the AWS Events cell app (which you may get on Google Play or Apple App Store) to assist facilitate connections among the many re:Invent neighborhood.
If you’re not coming to re:Invent, no worries, you may get a free on-line move to look at keynotes and management periods.
Last Week’s Launches
It was a busy week for our service groups! Here are the launches that obtained my consideration:
AWS Region in Spain – The AWS Region in Aragón, Spain, is now open. The official title is Europe (Spain), and the API title is eu-south-2.
Amazon Athena – You can now apply AWS Lake Formation fine-grained entry management insurance policies with all desk and file format supported by Amazon Athena to centrally handle permissions and entry knowledge catalog sources in your Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) knowledge lake. With fine-grained entry management, you may limit entry to knowledge in question outcomes utilizing knowledge filters to realize column-level, row-level, and cell-level safety.
Amazon EventBridge – With these additional filtering capabilities, now you can filter occasions by suffix, ignore case, and match if no less than one situation is true. This makes it simpler to write down complicated guidelines when constructing event-driven purposes.
AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) – The ACK for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is now typically obtainable and allows you to provision and handle EC2 networking sources, equivalent to VPCs, safety teams and web gateways utilizing the Kubernetes API. Also, the ACK for Amazon EMR on EKS is now typically obtainable to let you declaratively outline and handle EMR on EKS sources equivalent to digital clusters and job runs as Kubernetes customized sources. Learn extra about ACK for Amazon EMR on EKS in this weblog publish.
Amazon Well beingLake – New analytics capabilities make it simpler to question, visualize, and construct machine studying (ML) fashions. Now Well beingLake transforms buyer knowledge into an analytics-ready format in close to real-time in an effort to question, and use the ensuing knowledge to construct visualizations or ML fashions. Also new is Amazon Well beingLake Imaging (preview), a brand new HIPAA-eligible functionality that allows you to simply retailer, entry, and analyze medical pictures at any scale. More on Well beingLake Imaging could be present in this weblog publish.
Amazon RDS – You can now switch information between Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Oracle and an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system. You can use this integration to stage information like Oracle Data Pump export information whenever you import them. You may also use EFS to share a file system between an utility and a number of RDS Oracle DB cases to deal with particular utility wants.
Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS – We added centralized logging help for Windows containers that can assist you simply course of and ahead container logs to varied AWS and third-party locations equivalent to Amazon CloudWatch, S3, Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, Datadog, and Splunk. See these weblog posts for how one can use this new functionality with ECS and with EKS.
AWS SAM CLI – You can now use the Serverless Application Model CLI to regionally check and debug an AWS Lambda perform outlined in a Terraform utility. You can see a walkthrough on this weblog publish.
AWS Lambda – Now helps Node.js 18 as each a managed runtime and a container base picture, which you’ll study extra about in this weblog publish. Also take a look at this attention-grabbing article on why and the way you must use AWS SDK for JavaScript V3 with Node.js 18. And final however not least, there may be new tooling help to construct and deploy native AOT compiled .NET 7 purposes to AWS Lambda. With this tooling, you may allow sooner utility begins and profit from diminished prices by way of the sooner initialization occasions and decrease reminiscence consumption of native AOT purposes. Learn extra in this weblog publish.
AWS Step Functions – Now helps cross-account entry for greater than 220 AWS companies to course of knowledge, automate IT and enterprise processes, and construct purposes throughout a number of accounts. Learn extra in this weblog publish.
AWS Fargate – Adds the flexibility to monitor the utilization of the ephemeral storage hooked up to an Amazon ECS activity. You can monitor the storage utilization with Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights and ECS Task Metadata endpoint.
AWS Proton – Now has a centralized dashboard for all sources deployed and managed by AWS Proton, which you’ll study extra about in this weblog publish. You can now additionally specify customized instructions to provision infrastructure from templates. In this fashion, you may handle templates outlined utilizing the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) and different templating and provisioning instruments. More on CDK help and AWS CodeBuild provisioning could be present in this weblog publish.
AWS IAM – You can now use multiple multi-factor authentication (MFA) gadget for root account customers and IAM customers in your AWS accounts. More data is offered in this publish.
Amazon ElastiCache – You can now use IAM authentication to entry Redis clusters. With this new functionality, IAM customers and roles could be related to ElastiCache for Redis customers to handle their cluster entry.
Amazon WorkSpaces – You can now use model 2.0 of the WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol (WSP) host agent that provides vital streaming high quality and efficiency enhancements, and you may study extra in this weblog publish. Also, with Amazon WorkSpaces Multi-Region Resilience, you may implement enterprise continuity options that preserve customers on-line and productive with lower than 30-minute restoration time goal (RTO) in one other AWS Region throughout disruptive occasions. More on multi-region resilience is offered in this publish.
Amazon CloudWatch RUM – You can now ship customized occasions (along with predefined occasions) for higher troubleshooting and utility particular monitoring. In this fashion, you may monitor particular capabilities of your utility and troubleshoot finish consumer impacting points distinctive to the appliance parts.
AWS AppSync – You can now outline GraphQL API resolvers utilizing JavaScript. You may also combine capabilities written in JavaScript and Velocity Template Language (VTL) inside a single pipeline resolver. To simplify native improvement of resolvers, AppSync launched two new NPM libraries and a brand new API command. More information could be present in this weblog publish.
AWS SDK for SAP ABAP – This new SDK makes it simpler for ABAP builders to modernize and remodel SAP-based enterprise processes and connect with AWS companies natively utilizing the SAP ABAP language. Learn extra in this weblog publish.
AWS CloudFormation – CloudFormation can now ship occasion notifications through Amazon EventBridge whenever you create, replace, or delete a stack set.
AWS Console – With the brand new Applications widget on the Console residence, you’ve gotten one-click entry to purposes in AWS Systems Manager Application Manager and their sources, code, and associated knowledge. From Application Manager, you may view the sources that energy your utility and your prices utilizing AWS Cost Explorer.
AWS Amplify – Expands Flutter help (developer preview) to Web and Desktop for the API, Analytics, and Storage use circumstances. You can now construct cross-platform Flutter apps with Amplify that concentrate on iOS, Android, Web, and Desktop (macOS, Windows, Linux) utilizing a single codebase. Learn extra on Flutter Web and Desktop help for AWS Amplify on this publish. Amplify Hosting now helps absolutely managed CI/CD deployments and internet hosting for server-side rendered (SSR) apps constructed utilizing Next.js 12 and 13. Learn extra in this weblog publish and see how one can deploy a NextJS 13 app with the AWS CDK right here.
Amazon SQS – With attribute-based entry management (ABAC), you may outline permissions based mostly on tags hooked up to customers and AWS sources. With this launch, now you can use tags to configure entry permissions and insurance policies for SQS queues. More particulars could be present in this weblog.
AWS Well-Architected Framework – The newest model of the Data Analytics Lens is now obtainable. The Data Analytics Lens is a group of design rules, greatest practices, and prescriptive steerage that can assist you working analytics on AWS.
AWS Organizations – You can now handle accounts, organizational items (OUs), and insurance policies inside your group utilizing CloudFormation templates.
For a full listing of AWS bulletins, be sure you control the What’s New at AWS web page.
Other AWS News
Just a few extra stuff you might need missed:
Introducing our last AWS Heroes of the 12 months – As the tip of 2022 approaches, we’re recognizing people whose enthusiasm for knowledge-sharing has an actual affect with the AWS neighborhood. Please meet them right here!
The Distributed Computing Manifesto – Werner Vogles, VP & CTO at Amazon.com, shared the Distributed Computing Manifesto, a canonical doc from the early days of Amazon that remodeled the best way we constructed architectures and highlights the challenges confronted on the finish of the twentieth century.
AWS re:Post – To make this neighborhood extra accessible globally, we expanded the consumer expertise to help 5 further languages. You can now work together with AWS re:Post additionally utilizing Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, French, Japanese, and Korean.
For AWS open-source information and updates, right here’s the newest e-newsletter curated by Ricardo to convey you the newest updates on open-source initiatives, posts, occasions, and extra.
Upcoming AWS Events
As common, there are numerous alternatives to fulfill:
AWS re:Invent – Our yearly occasion is subsequent week from November 28 to December 2. If you may’t be there in particular person, get your free on-line move to look at stay the keynotes and the management periods.
AWS Community Days – AWS Community Day occasions are community-led conferences to share and study collectively. Join us in Sri Lanka (on December 6-7), Dubai, UAE (December 10), Pune, India (December 10), and Ahmedabad, India (December 17).
That’s all from me for this week. Next week we’ll concentrate on re:Invent, after which we’ll take a brief break. We’ll be again with the following Week in Review on December 12!
— Danilo