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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.
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Taipei, Taiwan and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil are the latest edge locations for Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53.
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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.
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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.
A serverless, fully-managed, message queue service that supports producing, store, and consuming messages and enables loose coupling between applications.
IAM manages access to AWS resources via policies which are assigned to users, groups and roles.
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.
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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.
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.
A serverless, fully-managed, message queue service that supports producing, store, and consuming messages and enables loose coupling between applications.
IAM manages access to AWS resources via policies which are assigned to users, groups and roles.
Amazon Redshift Work Load Management (WLM) will now move timed-out queries to the next matching queue automatically and restart them.
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A Postgres-compatible columnar analytics database.
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.
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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.
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A serverless container platform used by ECS and EKS
Firecracker 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.
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Several new “License Included” Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) for Windows Server 2019 are now available.
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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 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.
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aws_resource_groups Service
aws_resource_explorer Service
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.
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AWS ParallelCluster Service
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.
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AWS ParallelCluster Service
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.
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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 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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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The AWS Network Firewall is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) region.
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This open source JDBC (Java DataBase Connectivity) driver is now available in preview. Designed to work with clustered databases, it supports faster failover.
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Aurora is a cloud native database
Amazon Aurora for MySQL Service
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for MySQL Service
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.
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AWS Transfer Family Service
Data mappings can now be used to modify the path parameters, query string and headers passed in as part of an HTTP request.
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Provides an internal or public facing web services API gateway that integrates with AWS services such as AWS Lambda.
The AWS Config console has been refreshed with a 1-click setup, advanced queries, aggregators, and resource configuration and compliance timeline pages.
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Amazon CloudWatch Metrics now exposes statistics on Amazon ECR pull
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A Docker-compatible container registry
SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) in Multidimensional mode provides Online Analytics Processing (OLAP) capabilities for Amazon RDS for SQL Server.
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Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Microsoft SQL Server Service
JupyterLab v3.1.4 provides an enhanced user experience and new usability features for EMR Studio.
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Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) Studio Service
Application entitlements for SAML 2.0 federated user identities are now available for Amazon AppStream 2.0.
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Downlink Queue Management and Network Analyzer capabilities are now available for AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN.
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AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN Service
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.
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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 Service
Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) Service
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.
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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 Service
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.
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