What's New from Amazon Web Services

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Db2 now supports local time zones. You can now set the time zone for your Amazon RDS for Db2 instances to the local time zone of your choice.

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/local-time-zone-amazon-rds-db2/

Today, AWS AppFabric announces support for SentinelOne Singularity Cloud as data source and compatible security destination. Starting now, IT administrators and security analysts can use AppFabri...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/aws-appfabric-sentinelone-singularity-cloud/

Amazon VPC announces a network interface setting to dynamically remove and add an auto assigned public IPv4 address on EC2 instances. With this capability, customers that no longer require an au...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/removing-adding-auto-assigned-public-ipv4-address/

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now supports AWS Graviton2-based M6gd database instances in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Europe (Spain, Zurich), a...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/amazon-rds-m6gd-database-instances-additional-regions/

Foundation model evaluations with SageMaker Clarify is now generally available. This capability helps data scientists and machine learning engineers evaluate, compare, and select foundation mode...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/amazon-sagemaker-clarify-foundation-model-evaluations/

Starting today, AWS Global Accelerator supports application endpoints in the AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region, expanding the number of supported AWS Regions to twenty-nine. 

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/aws-global-accelerator-endpoints-calgary-region/

We are excited to announce that Amazon GameLift now supports containers for building, deploying, and running game server packages. Amazon GameLift is a fully managed service that allows develope...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/amazon-gamelift-containers-support-preview/

AWS DataSync now lets you enable and disable task schedules. Using this new feature, you can temporarily disable scheduled executions of your task to accommodate events such as maintenance on yo...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/aws-datacync-disabling-task-schedules/

AWS CodeBuild now supports managed GitHub Action self-hosted runners. Customers can configure their CodeBuild projects to receive GitHub Actions workflow job events and run them on CodeBuild ephe...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/aws-codebuild-managed-github-action-runners/

NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB is a client-side application that provides data modeling and query development features to help you design, create, and work with DynamoDB tables. You can use ...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/nosql-workbench-amazon-dynamo-db-operation-builder-user-interface/

Today, AWS Direct Connect now enables AWS Direct Connect Service Delivery Partners (AWS Direct Connect Partners) to support 25 Gbps hosted connection capacity . 

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/aws-direct-connect-gbps-hosted-connection-capacities/

Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) Performance Insights now collects the query execution plans of the resource-intensive SQL queries in Amazon RDS for SQL Server, and stores them over time...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/amazon-rds-performance-insights-execution-plan-rds-sql-server/

Today, myApplications in the AWS Management Console has expanded the ability to create and manage your applications to 9 additional AWS Regions: Africa (Cape Town), Middle East (UAE), Asia Pacifi...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/myapplications-9-additional-regions/

Amazon CloudWatch RUM, which enables customers to monitor their web applications by collecting client side performance and error data in real time, is generally available in the following 5 AWS R...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/amazon-cloudwatch-rum-5-additional-regions/

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports external authentication of database users using Kerberos and Microsoft Active Directory in additional regions. This feature provides the benefits of single sign...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/amazon-rds-oracle-kerberos-authentication-additional-regions/

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now lets you add automated safeguards for rolling updates of Amazon ECS services in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. You can now monitor and automatic...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/amazon-ecs-cloudwatch-alarms-deployment-monitoring-govcloud-us-regions/

Today, AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN announced the expansion of the public network support in the Spain region. With this expansion, Internet of Things (IoT) customers that offer LoRaWAN-based systems...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/aws-iot-core-lorawan-public-network-support-spain/

Amazon OpenSearch Service adds support for Hebrew and HanLP (Chinese NLP) language analyzer plugins. These are now available as optional plugins that you can associate with your Amazon OpenSearc...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/amazon-opensearch-hebrew-hanlp-language-analyzers/

Amazon QuickSight now includes cross-sheet filters and controls. This enables authors to create and manage filters and controls across an entire analysis or dashboard.

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/amazon-quicksight-sheet-filters-controls/

Today, AWS AppFabric announces support for 1Password. Starting now, IT administrators and security analysts can use AppFabric to quickly integrate with 26 supported SaaS applications , aggregate...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/aws-appfabric-1password/

Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights with Enhanced Observability for EKS now auto-discovers critical health metrics from your AWS accelerators Trainium and Inferentia, and AWS high performance ne...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/cloudwatch-container-insights-compute-observability-eks/

Today, we're excited to announce the availability of a new capability of Amazon Q to analyze issues for complexity and propose splitting the work into separate tasks.

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/amazon-codecatalyst-task-breakdown-issues-amazon-q/

AWS Transfer Family customers can now use SFTP connectors to list files stored in remote SFTP servers, enabling visibility into the contents of directories in remote SFTP file systems and transf...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/aws-transfer-family-lists-files-remote-sftp-servers-connectors/

Amazon Titan Image Generator's new watermark detection feature is now generally available in Amazon Bedrock . All Amazon Titan-generated images contain an invisible watermark, by default. The wat...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/watermark-detection-amazon-titan-image-generator-bedrock/

You can now access Meta’s Llama 3 models, Llama 3 8B and Llama 3 70B, in Amazon Bedrock . Meta Llama 3 is designed for you to build, experiment, and responsibly scale your generative artificia...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/meta-llama-3-amazon-bedrock/

Agents for Amazon Bedrock enable generative AI applications to automate multi-step tasks across company systems and data sources. Agents removes the undifferentiated lifting of orchestration, inf...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/amazon-bedrock-agents-agent-creation-return-control-capability/

Model Evaluation on Amazon Bedrock allows you to evaluate, compare, and select the best foundation models for your use case. Amazon Bedrock offers a choice of automatic evaluation and human evalu...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/model-evaluation-amazon-bedrock-generally-available/

Amazon Titan Image Generator enables content creators with rapid ideation and iteration resulting in high efficiency image generation. The Amazon Titan Image Generator model is now generally ava...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/amazon-titan-image-generator-model-bedrock-available/

Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock allows you to connect foundation models (FMs) to internal company data sources to deliver more relevant, context-specific, and accurate responses. Knowledge Bas...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/knowledge-bases-amazon-bedrock-asking-questions-single-document/

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 delive...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/knowledge-bases-amazon-bedrock-multiple-data-sources/

We are excited to announce the preview of Custom Model Import for Amazon Bedrock. Now you can import customized models into Amazon Bedrock to accelerate your generative AI application development...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/custom-model-import-amazon-bedrock/

Agents for Amazon Bedrock enable developers to create generative AI-based applications that can complete complex tasks for a wide range of use cases and deliver answers based on company knowledge...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/agents-amazon-bedrock-anthropic-claude-3-haiku-sonnet/

Today, we are announcing the general availability of Guardrails for Amazon Bedrock that enables customers to implement safeguards across large language models (LLMs) based on their use cases and ...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/guardrails-amazon-bedrock-available-safety-privacy-controls/

Today, AWS announced Amazon Route 53 Profiles, a new offering that allows you to define a standard DNS configuration, in the form of a Profile, that may include Route 53 private hosted zone (PHZ)...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/amazon-route-53-profiles/

Today, AWS End User Computing services announced availability of two larger, more powerful instance types for Amazon WorkSpaces Web. These new instance types provide higher performance options to...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/amazon-workspaces-web-two-larger-instance-types/

Amazon Inspector now offers continuous monitoring of your Amazon EC2 instances for software vulnerabilities without installing an agent or additional software. Currently, Inspector leverages the ...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/amazon-inspector-agentless-vulnerability-assessments-ec2-ga/

Today Amazon CodeCatalyst announces support for approval gates within a workflow. Workflows provide an automated procedure for building, testing, and deploying code as part of a continuous integr...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/workflow-approvals-amazon-codecatalyst/

The Amazon Time Sync Service now supports clock synchronization within microseconds of UTC on 87 additional Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance types in supported regions, includin...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/amazon-time-sync-service-microsecond-accurate-time-additonal-ec2-instance-types/

Amazon Personalize is excited to announce automatic training for solutions. With automatic training, developers can set a cadence for their Personalize solutions to automatically retrain using ...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/amazon-personalize-automatic-solution-training/

Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region, giving government customers and their partners the benefits of Amazon SES.

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/amazon-simple-email-service-aws-govcloud-us-east-region/

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Roles Anywhere now provides the capability to define a set of mapping rules, allowing you to specify which data is extracted from your X.509 end-entity c...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/iam-roles-anywhere-modifying-mapping-certificate-attributes/

Today, we are excited to announce that customers will now be able to use Apache Livy to submit their Apache Spark jobs to Amazon EMR on EKS , in addition to using StartJobRun API, Spark Operator...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/amazon-emr-eks-apache-livy/

Amazon SageMaker enables SageMaker Projects in the updated SageMaker Studio experience. Prior to this SageMaker Projects were available only in SageMaker Studio classic.

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/amazon-sagemaker-projects-sagemaker-studio/

Today, AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) announces support of AWS Outposts racks. With this launch, you can now set your data replication and recovery destinations to AWS Outposts racks, i...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/aws-elastic-disaster-recovery-outposts-racks/

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R6gd instances are available in the Europe (Zurich) Region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton2 processors and are built on the ...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/amazon-ec2-r6gd-instances-zurich-region/

You can now create Amazon S3 Access Grants in the Middle East (UAE), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Hyderabad, and Spain Regions. 

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/amazon-s3-access-grants-four-regions/

AWS Glue Studio Notebooks provides interactive job authoring in AWS Glue, which helps simplify the process of developing data integration jobs. Studio Notebooks is generally available in the foll...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/aws-glue-studio-notebooks-6-regions/

AWS Resilience Hub is now a HIPAA eligible service, enabling healthcare and life sciences organizations to now use AWS Resilience Hub to run sensitive workloads regulated under the U.S. Health In...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/aws-resilience-hub-hipaa-eligible-service/

Today, AWS announces the release of Neuron 2.18, introducing stable support (out of beta) for PyTorch 2.1, adding continuous batching with vLLM support, and adding support for speculative decodin...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/aws-neuron-speculative-decoding-vllm-support/

Amazon WorkSpaces now offers APIs to link your AWS accounts, within the same region, so that these accounts can use the same underlying dedicated infrastructure. AWS enables you to run your Bring...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/amazon-workspaces-simplify-byol-account-management/

Starting today, the next generation of the Meta Llama models, Llama 3, is now available via Amazon SageMaker JumpStart , a machine learning (ML) hub that offers pretrained models, built-in algor...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/meta-llama-3-foundation-models-aws/

AWS Storage Gateway expands availability to the AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region enabling customers to deploy and manage hybrid cloud storage for their on-premises workloads.

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/aws-storage-gateway-canada-west-calgary-region/

Trusted Language Extensions for PostgreSQL (pg_tle) now supports client authentication hook that lets you run additional checks over the existing authentication process, allowing you to enhance ...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/amazon-rds-postgresql-authentication-hook-language-extensions/

AWS Partner Central has enhanced the user management experience in AWS Partner Central with a modernized look and feel and more customized capabilities. Now, alliance leads and alliance team user...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/aws-partner-central-user-management-capabilities/

Today, we are announcing the availability of the Amazon Neptune connector for Nodestream, the Parquet input file format for Nodestream, and the Nodestream Security Bill Of Material (SBOM) plug-in...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/amazon-neptune-connector-nodestream-parquet-sbom/

AWS Partners with services solutions will now have additional guidance available through the tasks feature in AWS Partner Central to help expediate their self-service journey with AWS. With thi...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/self-service-tasks-services-partners-aws-partner-central/

Starting today, Partners can leverage the AWS Partner CRM Connector for Salesforce to create offers for future dated agreements and agreement based offers, providing greater flexibility and contr...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/aws-partner-crm-connector-future-dated-agreements/

Today, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) announces support for dead-letter queue redrive for FIFO queues in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Dead-letter queue redrive is an enhanced capability to ...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/amazon-sqs-fifo-dead-letter-queue-redrive-aws-govcloud-us-regions/

We are excited to announce that AWS Mainframe Modernization service is now available with greater control of managed runtime environments that run modernized mainframe applications.

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/aws-mainframe-modernization-advanced-configurations-runtime-environments/

We’re excited to announce the release of the SimSpace Weaver app SDK v1.17.0. This release reorganizes the app SDK distributable package to simplify onboarding for new users and contains ready-...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/aws-simspace-weaver-app-sdk-v1-17-0/

Amazon Data Firehose (Firehose) now offers direct integration with Snowflake Snowpipe Streaming. Firehose enables customers to reliably capture, transform, and deliver data streams into Amazon S3...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/stream-data-amazon-data-firehose-snowflake-snowpipe-streaming/

Amazon SageMaker Studio’s JupyterLab notebooks now come with a built-in SQL extension with which data scientists can seamlessly discover, explore, and transform data from multiple data sources ...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/amazon-sagemaker-studio-notebooks-data-sql-query/

Today, AWS announces the AWS Project Development Kit (PDK) blueprints in Amazon CodeCatalyst. The AWS PDK provides building blocks for common patterns along with development tools to manage and b...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/aws-pdk-blueprints-amazon-codecatalyst/

Accessibility Conformance Reports (ACRs) for AWS products and services are now available on AWS Artifact , a self-service portal for AWS compliance-related information. ACRs are documents that de...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/accessibility-conformance-reports-aws-artifact/

AWS Config supports 35 new resource types in advanced queries. Advanced queries within AWS Config is a feature that allows you to search the current configuration metadata and compliance state of...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/aws-config-advanced-queries-resource-types/

Starting today, customers can receive granular cost visibility for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) in the AWS Cost and Usage Reports (CUR), enabling you to analyze, optimize, an...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/aws-split-cost-allocation-data-amazon-eks/

All AWS customers who navigate to Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor console can now view the internet weather map, at no charge, which shares a 24-hour global snapshot of internet latency and av...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/monitor-internet-outage-weather-map-cloudwatch/

Today, Amazon Athena announced federated query pass-through, a new feature that allows entire queries to be executed directly on the underlying data source. Federated query pass-through allows ...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/amazon-athena-federated-query-pass-through/

Amazon Cognito is now available in Europe (Spain) Region. Amazon Cognito makes it easy to add authentication, authorization, and user management to your web and mobile apps. Amazon Cognito scales...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/amazon-cognito-europe-spain-region/

Amazon Cognito is now available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region. Amazon Cognito makes it easy to add authentication, authorization, and user management to your web and mobile apps. Amazon Cogn...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/amazon-cognito-asia-pacific-hyderabad/

On April 16, 2024 Amazon announced quarterly security and critical updates for Amazon Corretto Long-Term Supported (LTS) and Feature Release (FR) versions of OpenJDK. Corretto 22.0.1, 21.0.3, 17....

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/amazon-corretto-april-2024-quarterly-updates/

Starting today, AWS Network Manager is available in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. AWS Network Manager reduces the operational complexity of managing global networks across AWS and on-premises...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/aws-network-manager-israel-tel-aviv-region/

Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) now offers larger environment sizes, giving customers of the managed service the ability to define a greater number of workflows in each Apache ...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/amazon-mwaa-larger-environment-sizes/

Today, AWS Well-Architected introduces a new connector for Jira, which helps you create a closed-loop mechanism to efficiently manage and track your risks over time. You can now configure the Wel...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/aws-well-architected-tool-connector-jira/

AWS CloudFormation enhances ChangeSets to  provide a detailed preview of the actions that CloudFormation will take in a deployment. This launch helps improve your ability to assess whether a d...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/aws-cloudformation-changesets-enhanced-change-visibility-deployments/

Anthropic’s Claude 3 Opus foundation model, the most advanced and intelligent model in the Claude 3 Family, is now available on Amazon Bedrock . The Claude 3 family of models (Claude 3 Opus, Cl...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/anthropics-claude-3-opus-amazon-bedrock/

We are excited to announce AWS HealthOmics now supports reading sequence store objects using Amazon S3 APIs. AWS HealthOmics is a fully managed service that empowers healthcare and life science...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/aws-healthomics-reading-sequence-stores-s3-apis/

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now offers memory optimized X2iedn instances in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Jakarta and Osaka), Europe (Milan and Paris), US West (N. Cali...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/amazon-rds-oracle-x2iedn-additional-regions/

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for Oracle, a managed database service for legacy, custom, and packaged applications that require access to the underlying operating system...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/amazon-rds-custom-oracle-database-standard-edition-2/

AWS PrivateLink now supports Amazon QuickSight , providing private connectivity between the QuickSight website, virtual private clouds (VPCs) or on-premises networks without exposing traffic to ...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/aws-privatelink-supports-quicksight/

Amazon QuickSight now supports account instances of IAM Identity Center when creating a new subscription to QuickSight. Administrators can sign up for QuickSight and choose an account instance o...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/amazon-quicksight-account-instances-iam-identity-center/

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Oracle now supports version 23.2 of Oracle Application Express (APEX) for 19c and 21c versions of Oracle Database. Using APEX, developers can build a...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/amazon-rds-oracle-oracle-apex-version-23-20/

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports additional regions for Oracle Data Guard Switchover and Automated Backups of replica instances (read-only and mounted) deployed within an Availability Zone, or...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/amazon-rds-oracle-data-guard-switchover-automated-backups-additional-regions/

A new minor version of Microsoft SQL Server is now available on Amazon RDS for SQL Server , providing performance enhancements and security fixes. Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports the lates...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/amazon-rds-sql-server-minor-version-2022-cu12/

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK ) is now available in Canada West(Calgary) Region. Amazon MSK is a fully managed service for Apache Kafka and Kafka Connect that makes it eas...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/amazon-msk-canada-west-calgary-region/

AWS Transfer Family now provides you with the option to import and use a trading partner’s public, self-signed TLS certificate for sending Applicability Statement 2 (AS2) messages to their serv...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/aws-transfer-family-tls-certificates-3des-as2-messages/

Amazon Detective, a managed security service that helps analysts investigate potential security issues across AWS, has introduced a new feature to support investigating threats detected by Amazon...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/amazon-detective-investigations-guardduty-monitoring/

Today, AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)  announces new flexibility, visibility, and pricing for automatic key rotation. You can now customize the frequency of rotation period between 90 da...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/aws-kms-automatic-key-rotation/

Starting today, AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports HLS Interstitials for video-on-demand (VOD) streams. This feature, which you can enable as an option, automatically conditions manifests so ...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/aws-elemental-mediatailor-hls-interstitials-vod-streams/

AWS Step Functions announces an optimized integration for AWS Elemental MediaConvert , enabling video transcode jobs in your workflow. With this integration, customers can easily build automated...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/aws-step-functions-integration-elemental-mediaconvert/

Today, AWS Resource Explorer has expanded the availability of resource search and discovery to 10 additional AWS Regions: Africa (Cape Town), Middle East (UAE), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pac...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/aws-resource-explorer-additional-regions/

Starting today, customers can protect their AWS Lambda URL origins by using CloudFront Origin Access Control (OAC) to only allow access from designated CloudFront distributions. 

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/amazon-cloudfront-oac-lambda-function-url-origins/

Starting today, customers can protect their AWS Elemental MediaPackage origins by using CloudFront Origin Access Control (OAC) to only allow access from designated CloudFront distributions.

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/amazon-cloudfront-oac-aws-elemental-mediapackage-origin/

Amazon Braket now provides access to three new experimental capabilities via Braket Direct, offering increased flexibility and control when programming on QuEra’s Aquila device. With today’s...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/amazon-braket-experimental-capabilities-quera-device-braket-direct/

Today, AWS announces the release of workflow monitor for live video, a media-centric tool to simplify and elevate the monitoring of your video workloads. Accessible via the AWS Elemental MediaLiv...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/workflow-monitor-aws-media-services/

Users of AWS IAM Identity Center can now take advantage of a streamlined AWS access portal and time-saving shortcut links to navigate directly to destinations in the AWS Management Console in acc...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/aws-iam-identity-center-shortcut-links-aws-access-portal/

AWS Lambda functions can now scale up to 12x faster than before in response to unpredictable traffic in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. With this improvement each function can scale up to a rate o...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/aws-lambda-functions-12x-faster-govcloud-us-regions/

We are excited to announce that Amazon EMR on EKS simplified the authentication and authorization user experience by integrating with Amazon EKS's improved cluster access management controls . Wi...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/amazon-emr-eks-simplified-access-management-controls/

AWS HealthImaging has upgraded its search functionality so that customers can more easily find and access their medical imaging data in the cloud. These enhancements simplify finding any patient ...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/aws-healthimaging-search-parameters-api-responses/

Today, AWS announces the release of Neuron 2.18, introducing stable support (out of beta) for PyTorch 2.1 and adding support for speculative decoding with Llama-2-70B sample in Transformers Neu...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/04/aws-neuron-speculative-decoding/