AWS Week in Review – November 21, 2022

This publish is a part of our Week in Evaluate collection. Examine again every week for a fast roundup of fascinating information and bulletins from AWS!

A brand new week begins, and the Information Weblog staff is preparing for AWS re:Invent! Many people can be there subsequent week and it might be nice to satisfy in individual. In case you’re coming, are you aware about PeerTalk? It’s an onsite networking program for re:Invent attendees out there via the AWS Occasions cellular app (which you will get on Google Play or Apple App Retailer) to assist facilitate connections among the many re:Invent group.

In case you’re not coming to re:Invent, no worries, you will get a free on-line cross to look at keynotes and management periods.

Final Week’s Launches
It was a busy week for our service groups! Listed here are the launches that received my consideration:

AWS Area in Spain – The AWS Area in Aragón, Spain, is now open. The official identify is Europe (Spain), and the API identify is eu-south-2.

Amazon Athena – Now you can apply AWS Lake Formation fine-grained entry management insurance policies with all desk and file format supported by Amazon Athena to centrally handle permissions and entry knowledge catalog assets in your Amazon Easy Storage Service (Amazon S3) knowledge lake. With fine-grained entry management, you may limit entry to knowledge in question outcomes utilizing knowledge filters to attain column-level, row-level, and cell-level safety.

Amazon EventBridge – With these further filtering capabilities, now you can filter occasions by suffix, ignore case, and match if at the very least one situation is true. This makes it simpler to put in writing complicated guidelines when constructing event-driven functions.

AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) – The ACK for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is now usually out there and allows you to provision and handle EC2 networking assets, comparable to VPCs, safety teams and web gateways utilizing the Kubernetes API. Additionally, the ACK for Amazon EMR on EKS is now usually out there to help you declaratively outline and handle EMR on EKS assets comparable to digital clusters and job runs as Kubernetes customized assets. Be taught extra about ACK for Amazon EMR on EKS on this weblog publish.

Amazon HealthLake – New analytics capabilities make it simpler to question, visualize, and construct machine studying (ML) fashions. Now HealthLake transforms buyer knowledge into an analytics-ready format in close to real-time in an effort to question, and use the ensuing knowledge to construct visualizations or ML fashions. Additionally new is Amazon HealthLake Imaging (preview), a brand new HIPAA-eligible functionality that allows you to simply retailer, entry, and analyze medical photos at any scale. Extra on HealthLake Imaging might be discovered on this weblog publish.

Amazon RDS – Now you can switch recordsdata between Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Oracle and an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system. You should utilize this integration to stage recordsdata like Oracle Knowledge Pump export recordsdata if you import them. You can even use EFS to share a file system between an software and a number of RDS Oracle DB cases to deal with particular software wants.

Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS – We added centralized logging help for Home windows containers that will help you simply course of and ahead container logs to numerous AWS and third-party locations comparable to Amazon CloudWatch, S3, Amazon Kinesis Knowledge Firehose, Datadog, and Splunk. See these weblog posts for easy methods to use this new functionality with ECS and with EKS.

AWS SAM CLI – Now you can use the Serverless Utility Mannequin CLI to domestically take a look at and debug an AWS Lambda operate outlined in a Terraform software. You possibly can see a walkthrough on this weblog publish.

AWS Lambda – Now helps Node.js 18 as each a managed runtime and a container base picture, which you’ll be able to be taught extra about on this weblog publish. Additionally try this fascinating article on why and the way it’s best to use AWS SDK for JavaScript V3 with Node.js 18. And final however not least, there’s new tooling help to construct and deploy native AOT compiled .NET 7 functions to AWS Lambda. With this tooling, you may allow sooner software begins and profit from diminished prices via the sooner initialization instances and decrease reminiscence consumption of native AOT functions. Be taught extra on this weblog publish.

AWS Step Features – Now helps cross-account entry for greater than 220 AWS providers to course of knowledge, automate IT and enterprise processes, and construct functions throughout a number of accounts. Be taught extra on this weblog publish.

AWS Fargate – Provides the flexibility to watch the utilization of the ephemeral storage hooked up to an Amazon ECS process. You possibly can observe the storage utilization with Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights and ECS Activity Metadata endpoint.

AWS Proton – Now has a centralized dashboard for all assets deployed and managed by AWS Proton, which you’ll be able to be taught extra about on this weblog publish. Now you can additionally specify customized instructions to provision infrastructure from templates. On this approach, you may handle templates outlined utilizing the AWS Cloud Improvement Equipment (AWS CDK) and different templating and provisioning instruments. Extra on CDK help and AWS CodeBuild provisioning might be discovered on this weblog publish.

AWS IAM – Now you can use multiple multi-factor authentication (MFA) system for root account customers and IAM customers in your AWS accounts. Extra info is obtainable on this publish.

Amazon ElastiCache – Now you can use IAM authentication to entry Redis clusters. With this new functionality, IAM customers and roles might be related to ElastiCache for Redis customers to handle their cluster entry.

Amazon WorkSpaces – Now you can use model 2.zero of the WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol (WSP) host agent that provides vital streaming high quality and efficiency enhancements, and you’ll be taught extra on this weblog publish. Additionally, with Amazon WorkSpaces Multi-Area Resilience, you may implement enterprise continuity options that maintain customers on-line and productive with lower than 30-minute restoration time goal (RTO) in one other AWS Area throughout disruptive occasions. Extra on multi-region resilience is obtainable on this publish.

Amazon CloudWatch RUM – Now you can ship customized occasions (along with predefined occasions) for higher troubleshooting and software particular monitoring. On this approach, you may monitor particular capabilities of your software and troubleshoot finish person impacting points distinctive to the appliance parts.

AWS AppSync – Now you can outline GraphQL API resolvers utilizing JavaScript. You can even combine capabilities written in JavaScript and Velocity Template Language (VTL) inside a single pipeline resolver. To simplify native improvement of resolvers, AppSync launched two new NPM libraries and a brand new API command. Extra information might be discovered on this weblog publish.

AWS SDK for SAP ABAP – This new SDK makes it simpler for ABAP builders to modernize and remodel SAP-based enterprise processes and hook up with AWS providers natively utilizing the SAP ABAP language. Be taught extra on this weblog publish.

AWS CloudFormation – CloudFormation can now ship occasion notifications through Amazon EventBridge if you create, replace, or delete a stack set.

AWS Console – With the brand new Functions widget on the Console dwelling, you’ve one-click entry to functions in AWS Techniques Supervisor Utility Supervisor and their assets, code, and associated knowledge. From Utility Supervisor, you may view the assets that energy your software and your prices utilizing AWS Value Explorer.

AWS Amplify – Expands Flutter help (developer preview) to Internet and Desktop for the API, Analytics, and Storage use circumstances. Now you can construct cross-platform Flutter apps with Amplify that focus on iOS, Android, Internet, and Desktop (macOS, Home windows, Linux) utilizing a single codebase. Be taught extra on Flutter Internet and Desktop help for AWS Amplify on this publish. Amplify Internet hosting now helps totally managed CI/CD deployments and internet hosting for server-side rendered (SSR) apps constructed utilizing Subsequent.js 12 and 13. Be taught extra on this weblog publish and see easy methods to deploy a NextJS 13 app with the AWS CDK right here.

Amazon SQS – With attribute-based entry management (ABAC), you may outline permissions primarily based on tags hooked up to customers and AWS assets. With this launch, now you can use tags to configure entry permissions and insurance policies for SQS queues. Extra particulars might be discovered on this weblog.

AWS Nicely-Architected Framework – The newest model of the Knowledge Analytics Lens is now out there. The Knowledge Analytics Lens is a group of design rules, greatest practices, and prescriptive steerage that will help you operating analytics on AWS.

AWS Organizations – Now you can handle accounts, organizational items (OUs), and insurance policies inside your group utilizing CloudFormation templates.

For a full record of AWS bulletins, be sure you regulate the What’s New at AWS web page.

Different AWS Information
Just a few extra stuff you might need missed:

Introducing our remaining AWS Heroes of the 12 months – As the tip of 2022 approaches, we’re recognizing people whose enthusiasm for knowledge-sharing has an actual affect with the AWS group. Please meet them right here!

The Distributed Computing Manifesto – Werner Vogles, VP & CTO at Amazon.com, shared the Distributed Computing Manifesto, a canonical doc from the early days of Amazon that reworked the best way we constructed architectures and highlights the challenges confronted on the finish of the 20th century.

AWS re:Publish – To make this group extra accessible globally, we expanded the person expertise to help 5 further languages. Now you can work together with AWS re:Publish additionally utilizing Conventional Chinese language, Simplified Chinese language, French, Japanese, and Korean.

For AWS open-source information and updates, right here’s the most recent e-newsletter curated by Ricardo to deliver you the latest updates on open-source tasks, posts, occasions, and extra.

Upcoming AWS Occasions
As regular, there are a lot of alternatives to satisfy:

AWS re:Invent – Our yearly occasion is subsequent week from November 28 to December 2. In case you can’t be there in individual, get your free on-line cross to look at dwell the keynotes and the management periods.

AWS Group Days – AWS Group Day occasions are community-led conferences to share and be taught collectively. Be a part of us in Sri Lanka (on December 6-7), Dubai, UAE (December 10), Pune, India (December 10), and Ahmedabad, India (December 17).

That’s all from me for this week. Subsequent week we’ll give attention to re:Invent, after which we’ll take a brief break. We’ll be again with the following Week in Evaluate on December 12!

— Danilo