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On this day - January 4th

 Posted 2023-01-04

What happened on January 4th regarding the AWS Cloud?

There were announcements related to the AWS Management Console, Amazon WorkMail, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), AWS Certificate Manager (ACM), Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon Connect, AWS Glue, Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR), Amazon SageMaker, and others.

A total of 19 announcements were made on January 4th:

Quiz of the Day for January 4th

Click here for the "Quiz of the Day" which covers some of the 19 announcements from January 4th.

On January 4th in 2013

There was just one announcement on January 4th in 2013.

Amazon Management Console supported on more devices

AWS Management Console now supports tablet devices and adds an app for Android mobile phones.

See here for the official AWS press release.

AWS Management Console

On January 4th in 2016

There was just one announcement on January 4th in 2016.

Amazon Workmail announced

Amazon WorkMail supports access to email, contacts, and calendars using Microsoft Outlook, Apple Mail, a web browser, or native iOS and Android email applications via a secure, managed business email and calendar service.

See here for the official AWS press release.

Amazon WorkMail

On January 4th in 2021

There were 7 announcements on January 4th in 2021.

SAP Workloads certified for EC2 R5B Instances

R5B instances are optimized for Amazon EBS with 60Gbps bandwidth and 260K IOPS (Input/Output operations per second) and are now certified for running SAP Workloads such as Netweaver and 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.

Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS)

Block storage designed to work with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances.

AWS Certificate Manager(ACM) gains FedRAMP Compliance

AWS Certificate Manager(ACM), including Private Certificate Authority(CA) is now FedRAMP Compliant. GovCloud regions are certified FedRAMP High, while others are certified FedRAMP Moderate.

See here for the official AWS press release.

AWS Certificate Manager (ACM)

RDS Oracle Upgrade

Amazon RDS for Oracle 11.2.0.4 Enterprise Edition October 2020 Patch Set Updates (PSU) are available.

See here for the official AWS press release.

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

AWS Partner Network launches new APN Foundations Advanced track

APN Foundations Advanced is now available for AWS Partners through the APN Navigate Foundations Toolbox.

See here for the official AWS press release.

AWS Solutions Consulting offer FedRAMP compliance preparation

Coalfire, an AWS Government Competency Partner, can help create a FedRAMP compliant cloud environment in as little as 60 days.

See here for the official AWS press release.

AWS Partner Network launches new APN Foundations ISV Partner Path track

APN Foundations ISV Partner Path is now available for AWS Partners through the APN Navigate Foundations Toolbox.

See here for the official AWS press release.

Voicemail Queues for Amazon Connect available from AWS Solutions Consulting

CloudHesive, an Amazon Connect Service Delivery Partner, can deliver voicemail queues for Amazon Connect as part of a AWS Solutions Consulting Offer.

It uses underlying services AWS services such as Amazon Kinesis, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), and Amazon QuickSight.

See here for the official AWS press release.

Amazon Connect

Amazon Kinesis

A suite of streaming data services, including a video streaming service.

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.

Amazon QuickSight

On January 4th in 2022

There were 10 announcements on January 4th in 2022.

Amazon OpenSearch Service now runs OpenSearch and OpenSearch Dashboards version 1.1

In this first upgrade since the announcement on September 8th 2021, the new version of the service provides several new capabilities, including:

  • Cross-Cluster Replication (CCR) for improved fault-tolerance
  • Machine learning based anomaly detection for historical data
  • alerting policies that evaluate against aggregations grouped by a unique field value

See here for the official AWS press release.

Amazon Elasticsearch Service

Amazon OpenSearch Service

AWS Resource Groups and Tag Editor launched in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region

AWS typically launches new capabilities in a small number of regions initially, and over time rolls that new capability out to other regions.

The Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region now supports the AWS Resource Groups service, including the Tag Editor.

See here for the official AWS press release.

AWS Resource Groups

aws_resource_groups Service

AWS Resource Groups Tag Editor

aws_resource_groups_tag_editor Service

AWS Resource Management

aws_resource_management Service

AWS Glue now detects and remediates PII

AWS Glue is now able to detect Personal Identifiable Information (PII) at both the column and cell level. It can log the type of PII and it’s location, and follow-on actions can be defined.

See here for the official AWS press release.

AWS Glue

Tool validates EMR on EKS custom docker images

Custom docker images can be used by EMR on EKS to include specific packages required for Apache Spark jobs that are not available in the default distribution of EMR. This new tool validates these images.

See here for the official AWS press release.

Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR)

SageMaker JumpStart additional models

Amazon SageMaker JumpStart adds three new model families designed to work with tabular data and both classification and regression tasks:

  • LightGBM
  • CatBoost
  • XGBoost
  • Linear Learner

See here for the official AWS press release.

Amazon Sagemaker JumpStart

Amazon Sagemaker JumpStart Service

AWS Glue adds new capabilities

AWS Glue supports two new capabilities designed to simplify the process of developing data integration jobs:

  • Interactive Sessions allow data engineers to explore and prepare data interactively
  • Job Notebooks let customers save and schedule their notebook code as AWS Glue jobs and work with Interactive Sessions

See here for the official AWS press release.

AWS Glue

Amazon Managed BlockChain (AMB) upgrades HyperLedger Fabric

Amazon Managed BlockChain (AMB) now supports the latest long-term support release of HyperLedger Fabric v2.2, which:

  • improves collaboration by introducing decentralized governance for chaincode (or smart contracts)
  • better supports the sharing of private data
  • improves the packaging and installation process for chaincode

See here for the official AWS press release.

Amazon Managed Blockchain

Updated Kubernetes plugin released for AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) Private Certificate Authority (CA)

Kubernetes can be extended to interact with its environment using plugins. AWS have now released a v1.0 plugin which allow Kubernete to use the more secure AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) Private Certificate Authority (CA) instead of it’s own internal CA.

See here for the official AWS press release.

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

Amazon's managed Kubernetes container orchestration platform

AWS Certificate Manager (ACM)

New AWS Storage Gateway Tape Gateway vendor products supported

Now Dell EMC NetWorker 19.5 and Veeam Backup & Replication 11A running on Microsoft Windows Server 2019 can backup to AWS Storage Gateway allowing users to replace physical tapes on premises with virtual tapes in AWS without changing backup workflows.

See here for the official AWS press release.

AWS Storage Gateway

Improved AWS Management Console for Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)

The AWS Management Console for Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) has been improved with new simplified workflows that provide flexible defaults.

See here for the official AWS press release.

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)

AWS Management Console

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