Kategorie: Amazon AWS

Amazon RDS for Db2 launches support for native database backups

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Db2 now enables customers to perform native database-level backups, offering greater flexibility in database management and migration. With this feature, customers can selectively back up individual databases within a multi-database RDS for Db2 instance, enabling efficient migration of specific databases to another instance or on-premises environment. Using a simple backup command, customers can easily create database copies for development and testing environments, while also meeting their compliance requirements through separate backup copies. By backing up specific databases instead of full instance snapshots, customers can reduce their storage costs. This feature is now available in all AWS Regions where Amazon RDS for Db2 is offered. For detailed information about configuring and using native database backups, visit the Amazon RDS for Db2 documentation. For pricing details, see the Amazon RDS pricing page.
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Amazon VPC Lattice now supports configurable IP addresses for Resource Gateways

Starting today, Amazon VPC Lattice lets you configure the number of IPv4 addresses assigned to resource gateway elastic network interfaces (ENIs). This enhancement builds on VPC Lattice’s capability of providing access to resources on Layer-4 such as databases, clusters, domain names, etc. across multiple VPCs and accounts. When configuring a resource gateway, you can now specify the number of IPv4 addresses per ENI, which becomes immutable after setting. The IPv4 addresses are used for network address translation and determine the maximum number of concurrent IPv4 connections to a resource. You should consider your expected connection volume when configuring the IPv4 address count. By default, VPC Lattice assigns 16 IPv4 addresses per ENI. For IPv6, VPC Lattice always assigns a /80 CIDR per ENI. This feature is available at no additional cost in all AWS Regions where VPC Lattice is offered. For more information, visit the Amazon VPC Lattice product detail page and Amazon VPC Lattice documentation.
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New Compute Optimized Amazon EC2 C8i and C8i-flex instances

AWS is announcing the general availability of new compute optimized Amazon EC2 C8i and C8i-flex instances. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS, delivering the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. These C8i and C8i-flex instances offer up to 15% better price-performance, and 2.5x more memory bandwidth compared to previous generation Intel-based instances. They deliver up to 20% better performance than C7i and C7i-flex instances, with even higher gains for some workloads. The C8i and C8i-flex instances are up to 60% faster for NGINX web applications, up to 40% faster for AI deep learning recommendation models, and 35% faster for Memcached stores compared to C7i and C7i-flex instances. C8i-flex are the easiest way to get price performance benefits for a majority of compute intensive workloads like web and application servers, databases, caches, Apache Kafka, Elasticsearch, and enterprise applications. They offer the most common sizes, from large to 16xlarge, and are a great first choice for applications that don’t fully utilize all compute resources. C8i instances are a great choice for all compute intensive workloads, especially for workloads that need the largest instance sizes or continuous high CPU usage. C8i instances offer 13 sizes including 2 bare metal sizes and the new 96xlarge size for the largest applications. C8i and C8i-flex instances are available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Spain). To get started, sign in to the AWS Management Console. Customers can purchase these instances via Savings Plans, On-Demand instances, and Spot instances. For more information about the new C8i and C8i-flex instances visit the AWS News blog.
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Amazon Connect now enables you to customize service level calculations

Amazon Connect now enables you to customize service level calculations to your specific needs. Supervisors and managers can define time thresholds for when a contact is considered to meet service level standards and select which contact outcomes to include in the calculation. For example, managers can choose to count callback contacts, exclude contacts transferred out while waiting in queue, and exclude short abandons using a configurable time threshold. Customization of service level calculation is available from the metric configuration section on the analytics dashboards. With this feature supervisors and managers can now create a service level metric calculation that better aligns with their business operations. With a customized view of service level performance, operations managers can assess how effectively they have met their service standards. This new feature is available in all AWS regions where Amazon Connect is offered. To learn more about customizing your service level calculation, visit the Admin Guide. To learn more about Amazon Connect, the easy-to-use cloud contact center, visit the Amazon Connect website.
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Amazon Connect launches new case APIs to link related cases, add custom related items, and search across them

Amazon Connect now allows you to programmatically enrich case data by linking related cases, attaching custom related items, and searching across them, so agents have the full context they need to resolve issues faster. For example, an airline can link all customer cases tied to a single flight cancellation to coordinate rebookings and send proactive updates, while a retailer can attach order and shipment details to a refund request to deliver faster resolutions and keep customers informed. Amazon Connect Cases is available in the following AWS regions: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (London), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Africa (Cape Town) AWS regions. To learn more and get started, visit the Amazon Connect Cases webpage and documentation.
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Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro now supports Kubernetes version 1.34

Kubernetes version 1.34 introduced several new features and bug fixes, and AWS is excited to announce that you can now use Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and Amazon EKS Distro to run Kubernetes version 1.34. Starting today, you can create new EKS clusters using version 1.34 and upgrade existing clusters to version 1.34 using the EKS console, the eksctl command line interface, or through an infrastructure-as-code tool. Kubernetes version 1.34 introduces several key improvements, including projected service account tokens for kubelet image credential providers helping improve security for container image pulls, and Pod-level resource requests and limits for simplified multi-container resource management. The release also introduces Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) prioritized alternatives, enabling workloads to define prioritized device requirements for improved resource scheduling. To learn more about the changes in Kubernetes version 1.34, see our documentation and the Kubernetes project release notes. EKS now supports Kubernetes version 1.34 in all the AWS Regions where EKS is available, including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. You can learn more about the Kubernetes versions available on EKS and instructions to update your cluster to version 1.34 by visiting EKS documentation. You can use EKS cluster insights to check if there any issues that can impact your Kubernetes cluster upgrades. EKS Distro builds of Kubernetes version 1.34 are available through ECR Public Gallery and GitHub. Learn more about the EKS version lifecycle policies in the documentation.
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Amazon Kinesis Video Streams now supports IPv6 for Streams capability

Today, AWS announces Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addressing support for Amazon Kinesis Video Streams (KVS). With this enhancement, KVS now offers dual-stack endpoints that let customers use both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses to stream video from millions of devices. This means that existing IPv4 implementations continue to work seamlessly while gaining the benefits of IPv6 connectivity. As customers increasingly encounter IPv4 address exhaustion in their private networks, this enhancement delivers much-needed flexibility. Organizations can now seamlessly stream videos using IPv4, IPv6, or dual-stack clients. This advancement simplifies IPv6-based system transitions, ensures compliance requirements are met, and eliminates dependency on costly address translation equipment. IPv6 support is available in all commercial AWS Regions where Amazon KVS is available except Ap-Southeast-1 and GovCloud regions . To learn more about Amazon KVS, refer to the developer guide.
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AWS Glue adds write operations for SAP OData, Adobe Marketo Engage, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, and HubSpot connectors

AWS Glue adds write operations support for SAP OData, Adobe Marketo Engage, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, and HubSpot connectors. This allows you to not only extract data from those applications, but also write data to them directly from your AWS Glue ETL jobs. With the new write functionality you can create and update records in SAP systems; sync leads into Adobe Marketo Engage; updating subscriber and campaign data in Salesforce Marketing Cloud; manage contacts, companies, and deals in HubSpot; and more. This feature simplifies building end-to-end ETL pipelines that both extract data from and write processed results back to target applications, eliminating the need for custom scripts or intermediate systems. Write operations support for SAP OData, Adobe Marketo Engage, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, and HubSpot connectors is available in all Regions where AWS Glue is available. To learn more and see the list of supported entities, visit AWS Glue documentation.
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AWS Introduces self-service invoice correction feature

Today, AWS announces the general availability of a self-service Invoice correction feature to update AWS invoices. This launch enables all AWS customers to correct key invoice attributes—including purchase order numbers, business legal name, and addresses — on their AWS invoices and get corrected invoices instantaneously. AWS customers can now access the new self-service Invoice correction feature directly from the AWS Billing and Cost Management console. This feature offers AWS customers a guided self-service workflow to update invoice attributes in their account settings and on select invoices. This feature gives AWS customers direct control over invoice corrections while reducing wait times and improving efficiency in managing their AWS accounts. AWS self-service Invoice Correction feature is generally available in all AWS Regions, excluding GovCloud (US) Regions and China (Beijing) and China (Ningxia) Regions. To get started with AWS self-service invoice correction feature, please visit the product details page. 
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AWS End User Messaging now sends onboarding progress alerts via Slack, Email, or any other EventBridge destination

Starting today, AWS End User Messaging customers can be notified of updates to their SMS onboarding progress in Slack, Email, or any other Amazon EventBridge destination. Before this launch, tracking the status of your onboarding progress was difficult. Customers had to periodically check the status of a phone number registration in the console. Now with this launch, you can be immediately notified when phone number or sender ID registrations in your AWS account are created, submitted, denied or requires an update. AWS End User Messaging provides developers with a scalable and cost-effective messaging infrastructure without compromising the safety, security, or results of their communications. Developers can integrate messaging to support uses cases such as one-time passcodes (OTP) at sign-ups, account updates, appointment reminders, delivery notifications, promotions and more. Support for EventBridge for SMS is available in all AWS Regions where End User Messaging is available, see the AWS Region table. To learn more, see AWS End User Messaging.
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