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On this day - January 7th

 Posted 2023-01-07

What happened on January 7th regarding the AWS Cloud?

The first announcemnt on this day was back in 2014 when a new edge location was added, but new SDKs were also launched, SLAs and price reductions were announced, several new capabilities were launched in new regions, and an urgent alert to rotate database certificates was made, amongst other announcements.

A total of 28 announcements were made on January 7th:

Quiz of the Day for January 7th

Click here for the "Quiz of the Day" which covers some of the 28 announcements from January 7th.


There was just one announcement on January 7th in 2014.

New Edge Locations Added

Taipei, Taiwan and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil are the latest edge locations for Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53.

See here for the official AWS press release.


There were 2 announcements on January 7th in 2015.

AWS SDK for .Net with Resource APIs in Developer Preview

Resource APIs provide a more object-oriented experience when working with AWS resources. Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, Amazon Glacier, AWS CloudFormation, and AWS IAM are supported in the current release.

See here for the official AWS press release.

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)

Provides a publish/subscribe notification service with multiple subscription types including Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, AWS Lambda, generic HTTPS endpoints, SMS and email.

Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)

A serverless, fully-managed, message queue service that supports producing, store, and consuming messages and enables loose coupling between applications.

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

IAM manages access to AWS resources via policies which are assigned to users, groups and roles.


AWS SDK for PHP v3 with Resource APIs in Developer Preview

Resource APIs provide a more object-oriented experience when working with AWS resources. Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon Glacier, Amazon SNS, Amazon SQS, AWS CloudFormation, and AWS IAM are supported by the current release, with more to follow.

See here for the official AWS press release.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Provides infrastructure layer compute capabilities, including both bare metal and virtual servers with various optimizations includins compute, memory, IO, and disk. Also supports accelerations options such as GPUs, FPGAs, Inferentia and Trainium.

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)

Provides a publish/subscribe notification service with multiple subscription types including Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, AWS Lambda, generic HTTPS endpoints, SMS and email.

Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)

A serverless, fully-managed, message queue service that supports producing, store, and consuming messages and enables loose coupling between applications.

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

IAM manages access to AWS resources via policies which are assigned to users, groups and roles.


There was just one announcement on January 7th in 2016.

Queue hopping for timed-out queries in Amazon Redshift

Amazon Redshift Work Load Management (WLM) will now move timed-out queries to the next matching queue automatically and restart them.

See here for the official AWS press release.

Amazon Redshift

A Postgres-compatible columnar analytics database.


There were 8 announcements on January 7th in 2019.

EMR announces SLA of 99.9%

For all regions where EMR is available, AWS agrees that during any billing cycle they will use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure an uptime of at least 99.9%. Customers will be eligible to receive a Service Credit in the event AWS does not meet the Service Commitment.

See here for the official AWS press release.


AWS Fargate price reduction

AWS Fargate, the serverless compute engine for the Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) has dropped in price. This is the result of using microVMs enabled by the Firecracker Virtual Machine (VM) technology.

See here for the official AWS press release.

AWS Fargate

A serverless container platform used by ECS and EKS

Firecracker

Firecracker Service


Reference deployment for Citrix Virtual Apps and Deskstop Service

AWS Quick Starts are reference deployments which follow AWS best practices and use AWS CloudFormation. Citrix Systems supported this Quick Start which deploys Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops and includes a hosted shared desktop and two sample published applications in about 90 minutes.

See here for the official AWS press release.


EC2 AMIs for Windows Server 2019

Several new “License Included” Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) for Windows Server 2019 are now available.

See here for the official AWS press release.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Provides infrastructure layer compute capabilities, including both bare metal and virtual servers with various optimizations includins compute, memory, IO, and disk. Also supports accelerations options such as GPUs, FPGAs, Inferentia and Trainium.


Resource Tagging now available on AWS Step Functions

AWS resource tags are supported by AWS Step Functions in all regions where Step Functions is available. Resource tags make it easier to filter resources and allocate costs.

See here for the official AWS press release.

AWS Resource Groups

aws_resource_groups Service

AWS Resource Explorer

aws_resource_explorer Service


AWS Parallel Cluster extends to China

he High Performance Computing (HPC) capability, which makes it easy to deploy and manage clusters for use by scientists and researchers and is build upon the CfnCluster project, is now available in the China (Beijing) and China (Ningxia) regions.

See here for the official AWS press release.

AWS ParallelCluster

AWS ParallelCluster Service


AWS Parallel Cluster extends to Europe (Stockholm)

The High Performance Computing (HPC) capability, which makes it easy to deploy and manage clusters for use by scientists and researchers and is build upon the CfnCluster project, is now available in the AWS Europe (Stockholm) region.

See here for the official AWS press release.

AWS ParallelCluster

AWS ParallelCluster Service


Amazon EC2 X1e Instances now available in Seoul

Amazon EC2 X1e memory optimized instances are now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) AWS region. These instances, with four Intel® Xeon® E7 8880 v3 processors offering up to 128 vCPUs and 3,904 GiB of RAM, are designed for running high-performance databases, in-memory workloads such as SAP HANA.

See here for the official AWS press release.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Provides infrastructure layer compute capabilities, including both bare metal and virtual servers with various optimizations includins compute, memory, IO, and disk. Also supports accelerations options such as GPUs, FPGAs, Inferentia and Trainium.


There were 3 announcements on January 7th in 2020.

Reference Deployment for iBASEt Solumina

AWS Quick Starts are reference deployments which follow AWS best practices and use AWS CloudFormation. iBASEt supported this Quick Start which deploys their Solumina Manufacturing Execution System (MES) in less than 2 hours.

See here for the official AWS press release.


Reference Deployment for IBM Cloud Pak for Data

AWS Quick Starts are reference deployments which follow AWS best practices and use AWS CloudFormation. IBM supported this Quick Start which deploys a multi-master, production instance of IBM Cloud Pak for Data on a Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 cluster on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.7 instances.

See here for the official AWS press release.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Provides infrastructure layer compute capabilities, including both bare metal and virtual servers with various optimizations includins compute, memory, IO, and disk. Also supports accelerations options such as GPUs, FPGAs, Inferentia and Trainium.


Urgent! Rotate your database certificates!

Aurora, RDS, or DocumentDB databases which use AWS SSL/TLS certificates need to have those certificates updated. This involves downloading a new certificate (which includes both the 2015 and 2019 certificate versions), install the certificate, rotate the certificate authority (CA), and then reboot.

See here for the official AWS press release.


There were 5 announcements on January 7th in 2021.

AWS Network Firewall expands to new AWS regions

The AWS Network Firewall is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) region.

See here for the official AWS press release.


Amazon Web Services MySQL JDBC Driver supports faster failover

This open source JDBC (Java DataBase Connectivity) driver is now available in preview. Designed to work with clustered databases, it supports faster failover.

See here for the official AWS press release.

Amazon Aurora for Amazon RDS

Aurora is a cloud native database

Amazon Aurora for MySQL

Amazon Aurora for MySQL Service

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for MySQL

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for MySQL Service


Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) supported by AWS Transfer Family

AWS Transfer Family now supports several file transfer variants that allow external entities such as partners, customers or vendors to put or get files to or from Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) storage. This is in addition to Amazon S3 storage.

See here for the official AWS press release.

AWS Transfer Family

AWS Transfer Family Service


API Gateway request modifications

Data mappings can now be used to modify the path parameters, query string and headers passed in as part of an HTTP request.

See here for the official AWS press release.

Amazon API Gateway

Provides an internal or public facing web services API gateway that integrates with AWS services such as AWS Lambda.


AWS Config console updates

The AWS Config console has been refreshed with a 1-click setup, advanced queries, aggregators, and resource configuration and compliance timeline pages.

See here for the official AWS press release.


There were 8 announcements on January 7th in 2022.

Amazon ECR Pull Statistics

Amazon CloudWatch Metrics now exposes statistics on Amazon ECR pull

See here for the official AWS press release.

Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR)

A Docker-compatible container registry


SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) in Multidimensional mode for Amazon RDS for SQL Server

SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) in Multidimensional mode provides Online Analytics Processing (OLAP) capabilities for Amazon RDS for SQL Server.

See here for the official AWS press release.

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Microsoft SQL Server

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Microsoft SQL Server Service


EMR Studio features upgraded JupyterLab

JupyterLab v3.1.4 provides an enhanced user experience and new usability features for EMR Studio.

See here for the official AWS press release.

Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) Studio

Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) Studio Service


New Authentication capabilities for Amazon AppStream 2.0

Application entitlements for SAML 2.0 federated user identities are now available for Amazon AppStream 2.0.

See here for the official AWS press release.


New AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN capabilities

Downlink Queue Management and Network Analyzer capabilities are now available for AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN.

See here for the official AWS press release.

AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN

AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN Service


AMD-based Amazon EC2 instances expand to new AWS Regions

M6a Amazon EC2 instances powered by 3rd generation AMD EPYC instances and running on the AWS Nitro System are available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) AWS Region. These instances have high bandwidth Amazon EBS access, and larger sizes support the Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) for high bandwidth access.

See here for the official AWS press release.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Provides infrastructure layer compute capabilities, including both bare metal and virtual servers with various optimizations includins compute, memory, IO, and disk. Also supports accelerations options such as GPUs, FPGAs, Inferentia and Trainium.

AWS Nitro System

AWS Nitro System Service

Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA)

Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) Service


AWS Graviton ARM-based Amazon EC2 instances expand to new AWS Regions

Both compute-optimized and memory-optimized Graviton-based instances are available in new regions. See the press release for specifics on which instances are availalbe in which regions.

See here for the official AWS press release.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Provides infrastructure layer compute capabilities, including both bare metal and virtual servers with various optimizations includins compute, memory, IO, and disk. Also supports accelerations options such as GPUs, FPGAs, Inferentia and Trainium.

AWS Graviton

AWS Graviton Service


Manage AWS Shield capabilities from AWS Firewall Manager

AWS Shield Advanced DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) capabilities can now be deployed centrally across multiple AWS Accounts in an AWS Organization using AWS Firewall Manager.

See here for the official AWS press release.



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