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AWS Items of interest week of August 22, 2023

Posted: 2023-08-22 11:47:56 Expiration: 2023-08-29 11:47:56

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A recap of last week's launches. Follow the AWS Blog, What's New from Amazon Web Services, and AWS Podcasts for up-to-date news and information.

Hello!

On behalf of your AWS Enterprise Account Team, I present a recap of last week's launches.

Follow the AWS Blog, What's New from Amazon Web Services, and AWS Podcasts for up-to-date news and information.

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Launch recap from last week (37 items):

What's New at AWS - Cloud Innovation & News

Product	Details	Date
Amazon Connect	Amazon Connect Contact Lens launches real-time conversational analytics in Asia Pacific (Singapore) region	August 14, 2023
Amazon EC2	Amazon EC2 I4i is available in UAE, Jakarta, and Hyderabad regions	August 18, 2023
Amazon EC2	Announcing Amazon EC2 Hpc7a instances	August 17, 2023
Amazon EC2	Announcing general purpose Amazon EC2 M7a instances	August 16, 2023
Amazon EC2	Amazon EC2 D3en instances are now available in additional regions	August 16, 2023
Amazon EC2	Amazon EC2 M7g and R7g instances are now available in AWS Region Asia Pacific (Singapore)	August 16, 2023
Amazon EC2	Amazon EC2 C7g, M7g and R7g instances are now available in AWS Region Asia Pacific (Mumbai)	August 14, 2023
Amazon EKS Distro	Kubernetes Metadata Enrichment now available in AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry	August 14, 2023
Amazon EMR	Amazon EMR Serverless now makes it easier to specify fine grained log configurations	August 15, 2023
Amazon FSx	Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now provides additional performance metrics and an enhanced monitoring dashboard	August 17, 2023
Amazon GameLift	Announcing Amazon GameLift support for instances powered by AWS Graviton3 processors	August 17, 2023
Amazon Kinesis Video Streams	Amazon Kinesis Video Streams improves image sampling frequency to 5 frames per second	August 15, 2023
Amazon Lex	Amazon Lex now supports Confirmation slot type	August 17, 2023
Amazon OpenSearch Service	Amazon OpenSearch Serverless expands support for larger workloads and collections	August 15, 2023
Amazon Polly	Amazon Polly launches new Gulf Arabic male NTTS voice	August 16, 2023
Amazon QuickSight	AWS IAM Identity Center integration is now generally available for Amazon QuickSight	August 14, 2023
Amazon RDS	Amazon RDS Performance Insights enhanced console experience in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions	August 17, 2023
Amazon RDS	Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle now supports R5b and X2iedn instances	August 16, 2023
Amazon RDS	Amazon RDS now supports T4g database instances in 6 additional AWS regions	August 16, 2023
Amazon RDS	Amazon RDS Performance Insights provides an on-demand analysis experience	August 16, 2023
Amazon RDS	Amazon RDS now supports M6g and R6g database instances in six additional AWS regions	August 16, 2023
Amazon RDS	Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle now supports R6i, M6i, and T3 instances	August 15, 2023
Amazon VPC	Amazon VPC Lattice is now available in 4 additional Regions	August 15, 2023
AWS AppSync	AWS AppSync now supports JavaScript for all resolvers in GraphQL APIs	August 16, 2023
AWS Audit Manager	AWS Audit Manager adds integration with Amazon EventBridge	August 18, 2023
AWS Backup	AWS Backup Audit Manager now supports delegated backup administrator	August 16, 2023
AWS Batch	AWS Batch on Amazon ECS now supports AL2023	August 18, 2023
AWS Client VPN	AWS Client VPN now supports Israel (Tel Aviv) Region	August 17, 2023
AWS CodePipeline	AWS CodePipeline now supports GitLab	August 14, 2023
AWS DeepRacer	AWS DeepRacer Student launches educator playbooks	August 17, 2023
AWS Developer Tools	AWS launches enhanced AWS Startups experience featuring AWS Build	August 14, 2023
AWS Glue	AWS Glue Studio Visual ETL adds 5 new visual transforms	August 16, 2023
AWS HealthOmics	AWS HealthOmics supports cross-account sharing of omics analytics stores	August 15, 2023
AWS HealthOmics	AWS HealthOmics now supports versioning of annotation stores	August 15, 2023
AWS Mainframe Modernization	AWS Mainframe Modernization Data Replication with Precisely is now available	August 15, 2023
AWS Resilience Hub	AWS Resilience Hub supports Exclude Recommendations	August 15, 2023
Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA)	Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) is now available in the Europe (Zurich) Region	August 15, 2023

Latest AWS Blog posts:

Date	Item
August 17, 2023	New – Amazon EC2 Hpc7a Instances Powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC Processors Optimized for High Performance Computing
August 16, 2023	Join AWS Hybrid Cloud & Edge Day to Learn How to Deploy Your Applications in the Everywhere Cloud
August 15, 2023	New – Amazon EC2 M7a General Purpose Instances Powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC Processors
August 14, 2023	AWS Weekly Roundup – Amazon MWAA, EMR Studio, Generative AI, and More – August 14, 2023

Latest Security Blog posts:

Date	Item
August 18, 2023	How AWS built the Security Guardians program, a mechanism to distribute security ownership
August 17, 2023	How to Connect Your On-Premises Active Directory to AWS Using AD Connector
August 16, 2023	How to automate the review and validation of permissions for users and groups in AWS IAM Identity Center
August 14, 2023	Cost considerations and common options for AWS Network Firewall log management
August 14, 2023	How to use AWS Verified Access logs to write and troubleshoot access policies

Latest Architecture Blog posts:

Date	Item
August 16, 2023	Let’s Architect! Security in software architectures
August 14, 2023	How SeatGeek uses AWS Serverless to control authorization, authentication, and rate-limiting in a multi-tenant SaaS application

Security Advisories last 30 days:

Date	Item
August 09, 2023	CVE-2023-20569 - RAS Poisoning - Inception
August 01, 2023	Recent Software-based Power Side-Channel Security Research
August 08, 2023	CVE-2022-40982 - Gather Data Sampling - Downfall
July 26, 2023	CVE-2023-20593

Amazon Linux Advisories last 30 days:

Date	Item
August 03, 2023	ALAS-2023-1800 (important): python-ecdsa
August 03, 2023	ALAS-2023-1799 (important): GraphicsMagick
August 03, 2023	ALAS-2023-1798 (important): java-1.8.0-openjdk
August 03, 2023	ALAS-2023-1797 (medium): java-1.8.0-openjdk
August 03, 2023	ALAS-2023-1796 (medium): cups
August 03, 2023	ALAS-2023-1795 (important): ca-certificates
August 03, 2023	ALAS-2023-1794 (medium): openssh
August 03, 2023	ALAS-2023-1793 (important): nghttp2
August 03, 2023	ALAS-2023-1792 (important): kernel
August 03, 2023	ALAS-2023-1791 (medium): ImageMagick
August 03, 2023	ALAS-2023-1790 (medium): avahi

Amazon Linux 2 Advisories last 30 days:

Date	Item
August 03, 2023	ALAS-2023-2203 (important): ca-certificates
August 03, 2023	ALAS-2023-2202 (medium): openssh
August 03, 2023	ALAS-2023-2201 (medium): ruby
August 03, 2023	ALAS-2023-2200 (medium): tomcat
August 03, 2023	ALAS-2023-2199 (medium): aspell
August 03, 2023	ALAS-2023-2198 (medium): python-pygments
August 03, 2023	ALAS-2023-2197 (low): elfutils
August 03, 2023	ALAS-2023-2196 (medium): python-setuptools
August 03, 2023	ALAS-2023-2195 (medium): microcode_ctl
August 03, 2023	ALAS-2023-2194 (important): cri-tools
August 03, 2023	ALAS-2023-2193 (important): nerdctl
August 03, 2023	ALAS-2023-2192 (important): cni-plugins
August 03, 2023	ALAS-2023-2191 (medium): qemu
August 03, 2023	ALAS-2023-2190 (medium): linux-firmware
August 03, 2023	ALAS-2023-2189 (medium): java-1.8.0-openjdk
August 03, 2023	ALAS-2023-2188 (low): python-configobj
August 03, 2023	ALAS-2023-2187 (medium): wireshark
August 03, 2023	ALAS-2023-2186 (important): golang
August 03, 2023	ALAS-2023-2185 (important): golist
August 03, 2023	ALAS-2023-2184 (medium): cups
August 03, 2023	ALAS-2023-2182 (medium): yajl
August 03, 2023	ALAS-2023-2180 (important): nghttp2
August 03, 2023	ALAS-2023-2179 (important): kernel
August 03, 2023	ALAS-2023-2178 (medium): ImageMagick
August 03, 2023	ALAS-2023-2177 (important): webkitgtk4
August 03, 2023	ALAS-2023-2176 (important): openssh
August 03, 2023	ALAS-2023-2175 (medium): avahi
August 03, 2023	ALASJAVA-OPENJDK11-2023-005 (medium): java-11-openjdk
August 03, 2023	ALASKERNEL-5.10-2023-038 (important): kernel
August 03, 2023	ALASKERNEL-5.15-2023-025 (important): kernel
August 03, 2023	ALASKERNEL-5.4-2023-050 (important): kernel
August 03, 2023	ALASNITRO-ENCLAVES-2023-025 (important): runc
August 03, 2023	ALASNITRO-ENCLAVES-2023-026 (important): containerd

AWS Events:

Date	Type	Event	Level
August 22, 2023	Virtual Event	Taking control of your cloud costs	All levels
August 23, 2023	Virtual Event	AWSome Day	All levels
August 23, 2023	Live Webinar	Modernize to AWS Aurora in a Fraction of the Time and Cost	All levels
August 23, 2023	Virtual Event	Seismic Updates: R5 Brings Foundational Changes to FedRAMP	All levels
August 24, 2023	Virtual Event	Wiz and AWS Virtual Immersion Day - Stockholm	All levels
August 24, 2023	Virtual Event	AWSome Day Online Hong Kong	Level 100
August 30, 2023	In-person Event	AWS Public Sector Symposium Canberra	Level 100
August 30, 2023	In-person Event	AWS Summit Mexico City	All levels
August 30, 2023	Virtual Event	Cloud Security Immersion Day: Orca Security & AWS	All levels
August 30, 2023	Virtual Event	Protect Sensitive Data with Orca and AWS	All levels
August 31, 2023	Virtual Event	ExecLeaders: Need for Speed - Agile Leadership Under Pressure	All levels
September 05, 2023	In-person Event	Wiz and AWS Immersion Day - London	All levels
September 07, 2023	Virtual Event	Transform your business with Generative AI	All levels
September 12, 2023	Industry Meetups	Energy & Utilities Customer Meetup	All Levels
September 13 - 14, 2023	In-person Event	AWS NLP Conference 2023: Large Language Models and Beyond	All levels
September 13, 2023	In-person Event	Drive Effective Data Programs in the Age of Digital and AI	All levels
September 14, 2023	In-person Event	Predict, detect, and evolve with cloud-powered generative AI	All levels
September 14, 2023	In-person Event	dbSeer + AWS: Executive Cocktail Reception	All levels
September 14, 2023	Virtual Event	Low-code iPaaS for Automation and Integration to AWS	All levels
September 19, 2023	Virtual Event	Brewing Up Better Cloud Security: Vunerability & Patch Management	All levels
September 19, 2023	Virtual Event	AMAZON OMICS: HANDS-ON WORKSHOP	All levels
September 21, 2023	In-person Event	The Nordics Low-code Forum with AWS & Mendix	All levels
September 21, 2023	In-person Event	Building the Composable Enterprise with AWS & Mendix	All levels
September 21, 2023	In-person Event	Disrupting FSI: The Power of Innovation	All levels
September 22, 2023	In-person Event	AWS Public Sector Symposium New Delhi	Level 100
September 26, 2023	In-person Event	AWS Startup Day Hong Kong	All levels
September 26, 2023	In-person Event	AWS Web3 Day Hong Kong	All levels
September 26, 2023	In-person Event	Lacework & AWS Game Day: Palo Alto	All levels
September 27, 2023	In-person Event	AWS AI & Data Conference Ireland 2023	All levels
September 27, 2023	In-person Event	Big Data, Big Outcomes: Public Sector Technology Leaders Breakfast	All levels
September 27, 2023	In-person Event	SAP Transformation Now 2023	All levels
September 28, 2023	In-person Event	AWS Energy and Utilities Symposium	All levels
October 10, 2023	Virtual Event	The definitive guide to RISE with SAP	All levels
October 10, 2023	In-person Event	Lacework & AWS Game Day: NYC	All levels
October 10 - 12, 2023	In-person Event	HashiConf 2023	All levels
October 18, 2023	In-person Event	Lacework & AWS Game Day: London	All levels
October 24, 2023	In-person Event	Lacework & AWS Game Day: Herndon VA	All levels
October 26, 2023	In-person Event	Manufacturing & Industrial Symposium	All levels

Latest AWS YouTube Channel Videos:

Date	Video
August 18, 2023	Analyzing AWS WAF logs using Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights and Contributor Insights
August 18, 2023	Skywatch automates satellite data processing with AWS \| Amazon Web Services
August 18, 2023	BlackSky connects with AWS for faster satellite imagery analytics capabilities \| Amazon Web Services
August 18, 2023	Kayhan Space helps prevent satellite collisions with AWS \| Amazon Web Services
August 18, 2023	Setup Amazon CodeWhisperer Professional with Okta Workforce Identity Cloud & AWS IAM Identity Center
August 18, 2023	Process Optmization on AWS \| Amazon Web Services
August 18, 2023	Use Reference Tracking and Security Scanning with Amazon CodeWhisperer \| Amazon Web Services
August 18, 2023	Accelerate Python Coding with Amazon CodeWhisperer \| Amazon Web Services
August 18, 2023	EPAM Empowers Career Growth of Ukrainians in Challenging Times with ITSkills4U Program
August 17, 2023	Back to Basics: Migrating Your Database to Managed Database Services on AWS
August 17, 2023	Amazon GuardDuty EKS Protection Overview \| Amazon Web Services

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