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AWS Week In Review — September 26, 2022

2022-09-27 Sébastien Stormacq

Post Syndicated from Sébastien Stormacq original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-week-in-review-september-26-2022/

It looks like my travel schedule is coupled with this Week In Review series of blog posts. This week, I am traveling to Fort-de-France in the French Caribbean islands to meet our customers and partners. I enjoy the travel time when I am offline. It gives me the opportunity to reflect on the past or plan for the future.

Last Week’s Launches
Here are some of the launches that caught my eye last week:

Amazon SageMaker Autopilot – has added a new Ensemble training mode powered by AutoGluon that is 8X faster than the current Hyper parameter Optimization Mode and supports a wide range of algorithms, including LightGBM, CatBoost, XGBoost, Random Forest, Extra Trees, linear models, and neural networks based on PyTorch and FastAI.

AWS Outposts and Amazon EKS – You can now deploy both the worker nodes and the Kubernetes control plane on an Outposts rack. This allows you to maximize your application availability in case of temporary network disconnection on premises. The Kubernetes control plane continues to manage the worker nodes, and no pod eviction happens when on-premises network connectivity is reestablished.

Amazon Corretto 19 – Corretto is a no-cost, multiplatform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK. Corretto is distributed by Amazon under an open source license. This version supports the latest OpenJDK feature release and is available on Linux, Windows, and macOS. You can download Corretto 19 from our downloads page.

Amazon CloudWatch Evidently – Evidently is a fully-managed service that makes it easier to introduce experiments and launches in your application code. Evidently adds support for Client Side Evaluations (CSE) for AWS Lambda, powered by AWS AppConfig. Evidently CSE allows application developers to generate feature evaluations in single-digit milliseconds from within their own Lambda functions. Check the client-side evaluation documentation to learn more.

Amazon S3 on AWS Outposts – S3 on Outposts now supports object versioning. Versioning helps you to locally preserve, retrieve, and restore each version of every object stored in your buckets. Versioning objects makes it easier to recover from both unintended user actions and application failures.

Amazon Polly – Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. This week, we announced the general availability of Hiujin, Amazon Polly’s first Cantonese-speaking neural text-to-speech (NTTS) voice. With this launch, the Amazon Polly portfolio now includes 96 voices across 34 languages and language variants.

X in Y – We launched existing AWS services in additional Regions:

Other AWS News
Introducing the Smart City Competency program – The AWS Smart City Competency provides best-in-class partner recommendations to our customers and the broader market. With the AWS Smart City Competency, you can quickly and confidently identify AWS Partners to help you address Smart City focused challenges.

An update to IAM role trust policy behavior – This is potentially a breaking change. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is changing an aspect of how role trust policy evaluation behaves when a role assumes itself. Previously, roles implicitly trusted themselves. AWS is changing role assumption behavior to always require self-referential role trust policy grants. This change improves consistency and visibility with regard to role behavior and privileges. This blog post shares the details and explains how to evaluate if your roles are impacted by this change and what to modify. According to our data, only 0.0001 percent of roles are impacted. We notified by email the account owners.

Amazon Music Unifies Music Queuing – The Amazon Music team published a blog post to explain how they created a unified music queue across devices. They used AWS AppSync and AWS Amplify to build a robust solution that scales to millions of music lovers.

Upcoming AWS Events
Check your calendar and sign up for an AWS event in your Region and language:

AWS re:Invent – Learn the latest from AWS and get energized by the community present in Las Vegas, Nevada. Registrations are open for re:Invent 2022 which will be held from Monday, November 28 to Friday, December 2.

AWS Summits – Come together to connect, collaborate, and learn about AWS. Registration is open for the following in-person AWS Summits: Bogotá (October 4), and Singapore (October 6).

Natural Language Processing (NLP) Summit – The AWS NLP Summit 2022 will host over 25 sessions focusing on the latest trends, hottest research, and innovative applications leveraging NLP capabilities on AWS. It is happening at our UK headquarters in London, October 5–6, and you can register now.

AWS Innovate for every app – This regional online conference is designed to inspire and educate executives and IT professionals about AWS. It offers dozens of technical sessions in eight languages (English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Indonesian). Register today: Americas, September 28; Europe, Middle-East, and Africa, October 6; Asia Pacific & Japan, October 20.

AWS Community Days – AWS Community Day events are community-led conferences to share and learn with one another. In September, the AWS community in the US will run events in Arlington, Virginia (September 30). In Europe, Community Day events will be held in October. Join us in Amersfoort, Netherlands (October 3), Warsaw, Poland (October 14), and Dresden, Germany (October 19).

AWS Tour du Cloud – The AWS Team in France has prepared a roadshow to meet customers and partners with a one-day free conference in seven cities across the country (Aix en Provence, Lille, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Strasbourg, Nantes, and Lyon), and in Fort-de-France, Martinique.

AWS Fest – This third-party event will feature AWS influencers, community heroes, industry leaders, and AWS customers, all sharing AWS optimization secrets (this week on Wednesday, September). You can register for AWS Fest here.

Stay Informed
That is my selection for this week! To better keep up with all of this news, please check out the following resources:

What’s New with AWS – All AWS announcements. Add the RSS feed to your news reader.
AWS on Air – Join us every Friday on Twitch, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
The Official AWS Podcast – Listen each week for updates on the latest AWS news and deep dives into exciting use cases. There are also official AWS podcasts in your local languages. Check the ones in Spanish, French, Italian, and German.
AWS News Blog – This blog.

— seb
This post is part of our Week in Review series. Check back each week for a quick roundup of interesting news and announcements from AWS!

AWS Week in Review – September 19, 2022

2022-09-19 Jeff Barr

Post Syndicated from Jeff Barr original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-week-in-review-september-19-2022/

Things are heating up in Seattle, with preparation for AWS re:Invent 2022 well underway. Later this month the entire News Blog team will participate in our now-legendary “speed storming” event. Over the course of three or four days, each of the AWS service teams with a launch in the works for re:Invent will give us an overview and share their PRFAQ (Press Release + FAQ) with us. After the meetings conclude, we’ll divvy up the launches and get to work on our blog posts!

Last Week’s Launches
Here are some of the launches that caught my eye last week:

Amazon Lex Visual Conversation Builder – This new tool makes bot design easier than ever. You get a complete view of the conversation in one place, and you can manage complex conversations that have dynamic paths. To learn more and see the builder in action, read Announcing Visual Conversation Builder for Amazon Lex on the AWS Machine Learning Blog.

AWS Config Conformance Pack Price Reduction – We have reduced the price for evaluation of AWS Config Conformance Packs by up to 58%. These packs contain AWS Config rules and remediation actions that can be deployed as a single entity in account and a region, or across an entire organization. The price reduction took effect September 14, 2022; it lowers the cost per evaluation and decreases the number of evaluations needed to reach each pricing tier.

CDK (Cloud Development Kit) Tree View – The AWS CloudFormation console now includes a Constructs tree view that automatically organizes the resources that were synthesized by AWS CDK constructs. The top level of the tree view includes the named constructs and the second level includes all of the resources generated by the named construct. Read the What’s New to learn more!

AWS Incident Detection and Response – AWS Enterprise Support customers now have access to proactive monitoring and incident management for selected workloads running on AWS. As part of the onboarding process, AWS experts review workloads for reliability and operational excellence, and work with the customer to identify critical metrics and associated alarms. Incident Management Engineers then monitor the workloads, detect critical incidents, and initiate a call bridge to accelerate recovery. Read the AWS Incident Detection and Response page and the What’s New to learn more.

ECS Cluster Scale-In Speed – Auto-Scaled ECS clusters can now scale-in (reduce capacity) faster than ever before. Previously, each scale-in would reduce the capacity within an Auto Scaling Group (ASG) by 5% at a time. Now, capacity can be reduced by up to 50%. This change makes scaling more responsive to workload changes while still maintaining availability for spiky traffic patterns. Read Faster Scaling-In for Amazon ECS Cluster Auto Scaling and the What’s New to learn more.

AWS Outposts Rack Networking – AWS Outposts racks now support local gateway ingress routing to redirect incoming traffic to an Elastic Network Interface (ENI) attached to an EC2 instance before traffic reaches workloads running on the Outpost; read Deploying Local Gateway Ingress Routing on AWS Outposts to learn more. Outposts racks now also support direct VPC routing to simplify the process of communicating with your on-premises network; read the What’s New to learn more.

Amazon SWF Console Experience Updated – The new console experience for Amazon Simple Workflow Service (SWF) gives you better visibility of your SWF domains along with additional information about your workflow executions and events. You can efficiently manage high-volume workloads and quickly find the detailed information that helps you to operate at peak efficiency. Read the What’s New to learn more.

Dynamic Intermediate Certificate Authorities – According to a post on the AWS Security Blog, public certificates issued through AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) will soon (October 11, 2022) be issued from one of several intermediate certificate authorities managed by Amazon. This change will be transparent to most customers and applications, except those that make use of certificate pinning. In some cases, older browsers will need to be updated in order to properly trust the Amazon Trust Services CAs.

X in Y – We launched existing AWS services and instance types in additional regions:

Other AWS News
AWS Open Source – Check out Installment #127 of the AWS Open Source News and Updates Newsletter to learn about new tools for AWS CloudFormation, AWS Lambda, Terraform / EKS, AWS Step Functions, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), and more.

New Case Study – Read this new case study to learn how the Deep Data Research Computing Center at Stanford University is creating tools designed to bridge the gap between biology and computer science in order to help researchers in precision medicine deliver tangible medical solutions.

Application Management – The AWS DevOps Blog showed you how to Implement Long-Running Deployments with AWS CloudFormation Custom Resources Using AWS Step Functions.

Architecture – The AWS Architecture Blog showed you how to Maintain Visibility Over the Use of Cloud Architecture Patterns.

Big Data – The AWS Big Data Blog showed you how to Optimize Amazon EMR Costs for Legacy and Spark Workloads.

Migration – In a two-part series on the AWS Compute Blog, Marcia showed you how to Lift and Shift a Web Application to AWS Serverless (Part 1, Part 2).

Mobile – The AWS Mobile Blog showed you how to Build Your Own Application for Route Optimization and Tracking using AWS Amplify and Amazon Location Service.

Security – The AWS Security Blog listed 10 Reasons to Import a Certificate into AWS Certificate Manager and 154 AWS Services that have achieved HITRUST Certificiation.

Training and Certification – The AWS Training and Certification Blog talked about The Value of Data and Pursuing the AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty Certification.

Containers – The AWS Containers Blog encouraged you to Achieve Consistent Application-Level Tagging for Cost Tracking in AWS.

Upcoming AWS Events
Check your calendar and sign up for an AWS event in your locale:

AWS Summits – Come together to connect, collaborate, and learn about AWS. Registration is open for the following in-person AWS Summits: Mexico City (September 21–22), Bogotá (October 4), and Singapore (October 6).

AWS Fest – This third-party event will feature AWS influencers, community heroes, industry leaders, and AWS customers, all sharing AWS optimization secrets (September 29th), register here.

Stay Informed
I hope that you have enjoyed this look back at some of what took place in AWS-land last week! To better keep up with all of this news, please check out the following resources:

- What’s New with AWS – All AWS announcements. Add the RSS feed to your news reader.
- AWS on Air – Join us every Friday on Twitch, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
- The Official AWS Podcast – Listen each week for updates on the latest AWS news and deep dives into exciting use cases.
- AWS News Blog – This blog.

— Jeff;

New – Direct VPC Routing Between On-Premises Networks and AWS Outposts Rack

2022-09-15 Steve Roberts

Post Syndicated from Steve Roberts original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-direct-vpc-routing-between-on-premises-networks-and-aws-outposts-rack/

Today, we announced direct VPC routing for AWS Outposts rack. This enables you to connect Outposts racks and on-premises networks using simplified IP address management. Direct VPC routing automatically advertises Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) subnet CIDR addresses to on-premises networks. This enables you to use the private IP addresses of resources in your VPC when communicating with your on-premises network. Furthermore, you can enable direct VPC routing using a self-serve process without needing to contact AWS.

If you’re unfamiliar, AWS Outposts rack, a part of the Outposts family, is a fully-managed service that offers the same AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any on-premises datacenter or co-location space for a consistent hybrid experience. They’re ideal for workloads that require low-latency access to on-premises systems, local data processing, data residency, and migration of applications with local system interdependencies. Once installed, your Outposts rack becomes an extension of your VPC, and it’s managed using the same APIs, tools, and management controls that you already use in the cloud.

With direct VPC routing, you now have two options to configure and connect your Outposts rack to your on-premises networks. Previously, to configure network routing between an on-premises network and an Outposts rack, you needed to use Customer-owned IP addresses (CoIP). During an Outposts rack installation, this involved providing a separate IP address range/CIDR from your on-premises network for AWS to create an address pool, which is known as a CoIP pool. When an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance on your Outposts rack needed to communicate with your on-premises network, Outposts rack would perform a 1:1 network address translation (NAT) from the VPC private IP address to a CoIP address in the CoIP pool. Using CoIP means that you must manage both VPC and CoIP address pools, without overlap, and configure route propagation between the two sets of addresses. When adding a subnet to a VPC, you also needed to follow several steps to update route propagation between your networks to recognize the new subnet addresses.

Managing IP address ranges for AWS cloud and onsite resources, as well as dealing with CoIP ranges on Outposts rack, can be an operational burden. Although the option to use CoIP is still available and will continue to be fully supported, the new direct VPC routing option simplifies your IP address management. Automatic advertisement of CIDR addresses for subnets, including new subnets added in the future, between the VPC and your Outposts rack, removes the need for you to reconfigure IP addresses. This also keeps route propagation up-to-date, thereby saving you time and effort. Furthermore, as mentioned earlier, you can enable all of this with a self-serve option.

Enabling Direct VPC Routing
You can select either CoIP or direct VPC routing approaches and utilize a new self-service API, CreateLocalGatewayRouteTable, to configure direct VPC routing for both new and existing Outposts racks. This eliminates the need to contact AWS to enable the configuration. To enable direct VPC routing, simply set the mode property in the CreateLocalGatewayRouteTable API’s request parameters to the value direct-vpc-routing. If you’re already using CoIP, then you must delete and recreate the route table that’s propagating traffic between the Outposts rack and your on-premises network.

The following example diagram, taken from the user guide, illustrates the setup for an Outposts rack running several Amazon EC2 instances and connected to an on-premises network, with automatic address advertisement. Note that private IP address ranges are utilized across the Outposts rack resources and the on-premises network.

Get started with Direct VPC Routing today
The option to enable direct VPC routing is available now for both new and existing Outposts racks. As mentioned earlier, the option to use CoIP will continue to be supported, but now you can choose between direct VPC routing and CoIP based on your on-premises networking needs. Direct VPC routing is available in all AWS Regions where Outposts rack is supported.

Find more information on this topic in the AWS Outposts User Guide. More information on AWS Outposts rack is available here.

— Steve

AWS Week In Review – September 12, 2022

2022-09-13 Sébastien Stormacq

Post Syndicated from Sébastien Stormacq original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-week-in-review-september-12-2022/

I am working from London, UK, this week to record sessions for the upcoming Innovate EMEA online conference—more about this in a future Week In Review. While I was crossing the channel, I took the time to review what happened on AWS last week.

Last Week’s Launches
Here are some launches that got my attention:

Seekable OCI for lazy loading container images. Seekable OCI (SOCI) is a technology open sourced by AWS that enables containers to launch faster by lazily loading the container image. SOCI works by creating an index of the files within an existing container image. This index is a key enabler to launching containers faster, providing the capability to extract an individual file from a container image before downloading the entire archive. Check out the source code on GitHub.

Amazon Lookout for Metrics now lets you filter data by dimensions and increased the limits on the number of measures and dimensions. Lookout for Metrics uses machine learning (ML) to automatically detect and diagnose anomalies (i.e., outliers from the norm) in business and operational data, such as a sudden dip in sales revenue or customer acquisition rates.

Amazon SageMaker has three new capabilities. First, SageMaker Canvas added additional capabilities to explore and analyze data with advanced visualizations. Second, SageMaker Studio now sends API user identity data to AWS CloudTrail. And third, SageMaker added TensorFlow image classification to its list of builtin algorithms.

The AWS console launches a widget to display the most recent AWS blog posts on the console landing page. Being part of the AWS News Blog team, I couldn’t be more excited about a launch this week.

Other AWS News
Some other updates and news that you may have missed:

The Amazon Science blog published an article on the design of a pinch grasping robot. It is one of the many areas where we try to improve the efficiency of our fulfillment centers. A must-read if you’re into robotics or logistics.

The Public Sector blog has an article on how Satellogic and AWS are harnessing the power of space and cloud. Satellogic is creating a live catalog of Earth and delivering daily updates to create a complete picture of changes to our planet for decision-makers. Satellogic is generating massive volumes of data, with each of its satellites collecting an average of 50GB of data daily. They are using compute, storage, analytics, and ground station infrastructure in support of their growth.

Event Ruler is now open-source. Talking about open-source, the source code of the core rule engine built first for Amazon CloudWatch Events, and now the core of Amazon Event Bridge, is newly available on GitHub. This is a Java library that allows applications to identify events that match a set of rules. Events and rules are expressed as JSON documents. Rules are compiled for fast evaluation by a finite state engine. Read the announcement blog post to understand how Event Bridge works under the hood.

HP Anyware (formerly Teradici CAS) is now available for Amazon EC2 Mac instances, from the AWS Marketplace. HP Anyware is a remote access solution that provides pixel-perfect rendering for your remote Mac Mini running in the AWS cloud. It uses PCoIP to securely and efficiently access the remote macOS machines. You can connect from anywhere, using a PCoIP client application or from thin terminals such as Thin Clients or Zero Clients workstations.

Upcoming AWS Events
Check your calendars and sign up for these AWS events that are happening all over the world:

That’s all from me for this week. Come back next Monday for another Week in Review!

— seb

This post is part of our Week in Review series. Check back each week for a quick roundup of interesting news and announcements from AWS!

AWS Week in Review – September 5, 2022

2022-09-05 Danilo Poccia

Post Syndicated from Danilo Poccia original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-week-in-review-september-5-2022/

This post is part of our Week in Review series. Check back each week for a quick roundup of interesting news and announcements from AWS!

As a new week begins, let’s quickly look back at the most significant AWS news from the previous seven days.

Last Week’s Launches
Here are the launches that got my attention last week:

AWS announces open-sourced credentials-fetcher to simplify Microsoft AD access from Linux containers. You can find more in the What’s New post.

AWS Step Functions now has 14 new intrinsic functions that help you process data more efficiently and make it easier to perform data processing tasks such as array manipulation, JSON object manipulation, and math functions within your workflows without having to invoke downstream services or add Task states.

AWS SAM CLI esbuild support is now generally available. You can now use esbuild in the SAM CLI build workflow for your JavaScript applications.

Amazon QuickSight launches a new user interface for dataset management that replaces the existing popup dialog modal with a full-page experience, providing a clearer breakdown of dataset management categories.

AWS GameKit adds Unity support. With this release for Unity, you can integrate cloud-based game features into Win64, MacOS, Android, or iOS games from both the Unreal and Unity engines with just a few clicks.

AWS and VMware announce VMware Cloud on AWS integration with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. Read more in Veliswa‘s blog post.

The AWS Region in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is now open. More info in Marcia‘s blog post.

For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on the What’s New at AWS page.

Other AWS News
A few more blog posts you might have missed:

Easy analytics and cost-optimization with Amazon Redshift Serverless – Four different use cases of Redshift Serverless are discussed in this post.

Building cost-effective AWS Step Functions workflows – In this blog post, Ben explains the difference between Standard and Express Workflows, including costs, migrating from Standard to Express, and some interesting ways of using both together.

How to subscribe to the new Security Hub Announcements topic for Amazon SNS – You can now receive updates about new Security Hub services and features, newly supported standards and controls, and other Security Hub changes.

Deploying AWS Lambda functions using AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) – With the ACK service controller for AWS Lambda, you can provision and manage Lambda functions with kubectl and custom resources.

For AWS open-source news and updates, here’s the latest newsletter curated by Ricardo to bring you the most recent updates on open-source projects, posts, events, and more.

Upcoming AWS Events
Depending on where you are on this planet, there are many opportunities to meet and learn:

AWS Summits – Come together to connect, collaborate, and learn about AWS. Registration is open for the following in-person AWS Summits: Ottawa (September 8), New Delhi (September 9), Mexico City (September 21–22), Bogotá (October 4), and Singapore (October 6).

AWS Community Days – AWS Community Day events are community-led conferences to share and learn with one another. In September, the AWS community in the US will run events in the Bay Area, California (September 9) and Arlington, Virginia (September 30). In Europe, Community Day events will be held in October. Join us in Amersfoort, Netherlands (October 3), Warsaw, Poland (October 14), and Dresden, Germany (October 19).

That’s all from me for this week. Come back next Monday for another Week in Review!

— Danilo

AWS and VMware Announce VMware Cloud on AWS integration with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

2022-08-30 Veliswa Boya

Post Syndicated from Veliswa Boya original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-and-vmware-announce-vmware-cloud-on-aws-integration-with-amazon-fsx-for-netapp-ontap/

Our customers are looking for cost-effective ways to continue to migrate their applications to the cloud. VMware Cloud on AWS is a fully managed, jointly engineered service that brings VMware’s enterprise-class, software-defined data center architecture to the cloud. VMware Cloud on AWS offers our customers the ability to run applications across operationally consistent VMware vSphere-based public, private, and hybrid cloud environments by bringing VMware’s Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) to AWS.

In 2021, we announced the fully managed shared storage service Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. This service provides our customers with access to the popular features, performance, and APIs of ONTAP file systems with the agility, scalability, security, and resiliency of AWS, making it easier to migrate on-premises applications that rely on network-attached storage (NAS) appliances to AWS.

Today I’m excited to announce the general availability of VMware Cloud on AWS integration with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. Prior to this announcement, customers could only use VMware VSAN where they could scale datastore capacity with compute. Now, they can scale storage independently and SDDCs can be scaled with the additional storage capacity that is made possible by FSx for NetApp ONTAP.

Customers can already add storage to their SDDCs by purchasing additional hosts or by adding AWS native storage services such as Amazon S3, Amazon EFS, and Amazon FSx for providing storage to virtual machines (VMs) on existing hosts. You may be thinking that nothing about this announcement is new.

Well, with this amazing integration, our customers now have the flexibility to add an external datastore option to support their growing workload needs. If you are running into storage constraints or are continually met with unplanned storage demands, this integration provides a cost-effective way to incrementally add capacity without the need to purchase more hosts. By taking advantage of external datastores through FSx for NetApp ONTAP, you have the flexibility to add more storage capacity when your workloads require it.

An Overview of VMware Cloud on AWS Integration with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
There are two account connectivity options for enabling storage provisioned by FSx for NetApp ONTAP to be made available for mounting as a datastore to a VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC. Both options use a dedicated Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) for the FSx file system to prevent routing conflicts.

The first option is to create a new Amazon VPC under the same connected AWS account and have it connected with the VMware-owned Shadow VPC using VMware Transit Connect. The diagram below shows the architecture of this option:

The first option is to enable storage under the same customer-owned account

The first option is to enable storage under the same AWS connected account

The second option is to create a new AWS account, which by default comes with an Amazon VPC for the Region. Similar to the first option, VMware Transit Connect is used to attach this new VPC with the VMware-owned Shadow VPC. Here is a diagram showing the architecture of this option:

The second option is to enable storage provisioned by FSx for NetApp ONTAP by creating a new AWS account

The second option is to enable storage by creating a new AWS account

Getting Started with VMware Cloud on AWS Integration with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
The first step is to create an FSx for NetApp ONTAP file system in your AWS account. The steps that you will follow to do this are the same, whether you’re using the first or second path to provision and mount your NFS datastore.

Open the Amazon FSx service page.
On the dashboard, choose Create file system to start the file system creation wizard.
On the Select file system type page, select Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, and then click Next which takes you to the Create ONTAP file system page. Here select the Standard create method.

The following video shows a complete guide on how to create an FSx for NetApp ONTAP:

The same process can be found in this FSx for ONTAP User Guide.

After the file system is created, locate the NFS IP address under the Storage virtual machines tab. The NFS IP address is the floating IP that is used to manage access between file system nodes, and it is required for configuring VMware Transit Connect.

Location of the NFS IP address under the Storage virtual machines tab – AWS console

You are done with creating the FSx for NetApp ONTAP file system, and now you need to create an SDDC group and configure VMware Transit Connect. In order to do this, you need to navigate between the VMware Cloud Console and the AWS console.

Sign in to the VMware Cloud Console, then go to the SDDC page. Here locate the Actions button and select Create SDDC Group. Once you’ve done this, provide the required data for Name (in the following example I used “FSx SDDC Group” for the name) and Description. For Membership, only include the SDDC in question.

After the SDDC Group is created, it shows up in your list of SDDC Groups. Select the SDDC Group, and then go to the External VPC tab.

External VPC tab Add Account – VMC Console

Once you are in the External VPC tab, click the ADD ACCOUNT button, then provide the AWS account that was used to provision the FSx file system, and then click Add.

Now it’s time for you to go back to the AWS console and sign in to the same AWS account where you created your Amazon FSx file system. Here navigate to the Resource Access Manager service page and click the Accept resource share button.

Resource Access Manager service page to access the Accept resource share button – AWS console

Return to the VMC Console. By now, the External VPC is in an ASSOCIATED state. This can take several minutes to update.

External VPC tab – VMC Console

Next, you need to attach a Transit Gateway to the VPC. For this, navigate back to the AWS console. A step-by-step guide can be found in the AWS Transit Gateway documentation.

The following is an example that represents a typical architecture of a VPC attached to a Transit Gateway:

A typical architecture of a VPC attached to a Transit Gateway

You are almost at the end of the process. You now need to accept the transit gateway attachment and for this you will navigate back to the VMware Cloud Console.

Accept the Transit Gateway attachment as follows:

Navigating back to the SDDC Group, External VPC tab, select the AWS account ID used for creating your FSx NetApp ONTAP, and click Accept. This process may take a few minutes.
Next, you need to add the routes so that the SDDC can see the FSx file system. This is done on the same External VPC tab, where you will find a table with the VPC. In that table, there is a button called Add Routes. In the Add Route section, add two routes:
1. The CIDR of the VPC where the FSx file system was deployed.
2. The floating IP address of the file system.
Click Done to complete the route task.

In the AWS console, create the route back to the SDDC by locating VPC on the VPC service page and navigating to the Route Table as seen below.

VPC service page Route Table navigation – AWS console

Ensure that you have the correct inbound rules for the SDDC Group CIDR by locating Security Groups under VPC and finding the Security Group that is being used (it should be the default one) to allow the inbound rules for SDDC Group CIDR.

Security Groups under VPC that is being used to allow the inbound rules for SDDC Group CIDR

Security Groups under VPC that are being used to allow the inbound rules for SDDC Group CIDR

Lastly, mount the NFS Datastore in the VMware Cloud Console as follows:

Locate your SDDC.
After selecting the SDDC, Navigate to the Storage Tab.
Click Attach Datastore to mount the NFS volume(s).
The next step is to select which hosts in the SDDC to mount the datastore to and click Mount to complete the task.

Attach A New Datastore

Available Today
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is available today for VMware Cloud on AWS customers in US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Milan), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm), South America (São Paulo), AWS GovCloud (US-East), and AWS GovCloud (US-West).

– Veliswa x

Now Open–AWS Region in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)

2022-08-30 Marcia Villalba

Post Syndicated from Marcia Villalba original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-open-aws-region-in-the-united-arab-emirates-uae/

The AWS Region in the United Arab Emirates is now open. The official name is Middle East (UAE), and the API name is me-central-1. You can start using it today to deploy workloads and store your data in the United Arab Emirates. The AWS Middle East (UAE) Region is the second Region in the Middle East, joining the AWS Middle East (Bahrain) Region.

The Middle East (UAE) Region has three Availability Zones that you can use to reliably spread your applications across multiple data centers. Each Availability Zone is a fully isolated partition of AWS infrastructure that contains one or more data centers.

Availability Zones are in separate and distinct geographic locations with enough distance to reduce the risk of a single event affecting the availability of the Region but near enough for business continuity for applications that require rapid failover and synchronous replication. This gives you the ability to operate production applications that are more highly available, more fault-tolerant, and more scalable than would be possible from a single data center.

Instances and Services
Applications running in this three-AZ Region can use C5, C5d, C6g, M5, M5d, M6g, M6gd, R5, R5d, R6g, I3, I3en, T3, and T4g instances, and can use a long list of AWS services including: Amazon API Gateway, Amazon Aurora, AWS AppConfig, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon CloudWatch Logs, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR), Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon EMR, Amazon OpenSearch Service, Amazon EventBridge, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), Amazon Route 53, Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Simple Workflow Service (Amazon SWF), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), AWS Application Auto Scaling, AWS Certificate Manager, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CloudTrail, AWS CodeDeploy, AWS Config, AWS Database Migration Service, AWS Direct Connect, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS), AWS Lambda, AWS Marketplace, AWS Health Dashboard, AWS Secrets Manager, AWS Step Functions, AWS Support API, AWS Systems Manager, AWS Trusted Advisor, VM Import/Export, AWS VPN, and AWS X-Ray.

AWS in the Middle East
In addition to the two Regions—Bahrain and UAE—the Middle East has two AWS Direct Connect locations, allowing customers to establish private connectivity between AWS and their data centers and offices, as well as two Amazon CloudFront edge locations, one in Dubai and another in Fujairah. The UAE Region also offers low-latency connections to other AWS Regions in the area, as shown in the following chart:

Since 2017, AWS has established offices in Dubai and Bahrain along with a broad network of partners. We continue to build our teams in the Middle East by adding account managers, solutions architects, business developers, and professional services consultants to help customers of all sizes build or move their workloads to the cloud. Visit the Amazon career page to check out the roles we are hiring for.

In addition to Infrastructure, AWS continues to make investments in education initiatives, training, and start-up enablement to support UAE’s digital transformation and economic development plans.

AWS Activate – This global program provides start-ups with credits, training, and support so they can build their business on AWS.
AWS Training and Certification – This program helps developers build cloud skills using digital or classroom training and to validate those skills by earning an industry-recognized credential.
AWS Educate and AWS Academy – These programs provide higher education institutions, educators, and students with cloud computing courses and certifications.

AWS Customers in the Middle East
We have many amazing customers in the Middle East that are doing incredible things with AWS, for example:

The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) implements the health care policy in the UAE. MoHAP is working with AWS to modernize their patient experience. With AWS, MoHAP can connect 100 percent of care providers—public and private—to further enhance their data strategy to support predictive and population health programs.

GEMS Education is one of the largest private K–12 operators in the world. Using AWS services like artificial intelligence and machine learning, GEMS developed an all-in-one integrated ED Tech platform called LearnOS. This platform supports teachers and creates personalized learning experiences. For example, with the use of Amazon Rekognition, they reduced 93 percent of the time spent in marking attendance. They also developed an automated quiz generation and assessment platform using Amazon EC2 and Amazon SageMaker. In addition, the algorithms can predict student year-end performance with up to 95 percent accuracy and recommend personalized reading materials.

YAP is a fast-growing regional financial super app that focuses on improving the digital banking experience. It functions as an independent app with no physical branches, making it the first of its kind in the UAE. AWS has helped fuel YAP’s growth and enabled them to scale to become a leading regional FinTech, giving them the elasticity to control costs as their user base has grown to over 130,000 users. With AWS, YAP can scale fast as they launch new markets, reducing the time to build and deploy complete infrastructure from months to weeks.

Available Now
The new Middle East (UAE) Region is ready to support your business. You can find a detailed list of the services available in this Region on the AWS Regional Service List.

With this launch, AWS now spans 87 Availability Zones within 27 geographic Regions around the world. We also have announced plans for 21 more Availability Zones and seven more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, and Switzerland.

For more information on our global infrastructure, upcoming Regions, and the custom hardware we use, visit the Global Infrastructure page.

— Marcia

AWS Week in Review – August 29, 2022

2022-08-29 Antje Barth

Post Syndicated from Antje Barth original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-week-in-review-august-29-2022/

I’ve just returned from data and machine learning (ML) conferences in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California. It’s been great to chat with customers and developers about the latest technology trends and use cases. This past week has also been packed with launches at AWS.

Last Week’s Launches
Here are some launches that got my attention during the previous week:

Amazon QuickSight announces fine-grained visual embedding. You can now embed individual visuals from QuickSight dashboards in applications and portals to provide key insights to users where they’re needed most. Check out Donnie’s blog post to learn more, and tune into this week’s The Official AWS Podcast episode.

Sample Web App with a Visual

Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning is now available in the Europe (Milan), Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Osaka), and Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Regions. In addition, SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning now reuses SageMaker Training instances to reduce start-up overheads by 20x. In scenarios where you have a large number of hyperparameter evaluations, the reuse of training instances can cumulatively save 2 hours for every 50 sequential evaluations.

Amazon RDS now supports setting up connectivity between your RDS database and EC2 compute instance in one click. Amazon RDS automatically sets up your VPC and related network settings during database creation to enable a secure connection between the EC2 instance and the RDS database.

In addition, Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports managed Oracle Data Guard Switchover and Automated Backups for replicas. With the Oracle Data Guard Switchover feature, you can reverse the roles between the primary database and one of its standby databases (replicas) with no data loss and a brief outage. You can also now create Automated Backups and manual DB snapshots of an RDS for Oracle replica, which reduces the time spent taking backups following a role transition.

Amazon Forecast now supports what-if analyses. Amazon Forecast is a fully managed service that uses ML algorithms to deliver highly accurate time series forecasts. You can now use what-if analyses to quantify the potential impact of business scenarios on your demand forecasts.

AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region now supports additional AWS services and EC2 instance types – Amazon SageMaker, AWS Application Migration Service, AWS Glue, Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA), and Amazon EC2 X2idn and X2iedn instances are now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region.

For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on the What’s New at AWS page.

Other AWS News
Here are some additional news, blog posts, and fun code competitions you may find interesting:

Scaling AI and Machine Learning Workloads with Ray on AWS – This past week, I attended Ray Summit in San Francisco, California, and had great conversations with the community. Check out this blog post to learn more about AWS contributions to the scalability and operational efficiency of Ray on AWS.

New AWS Heroes – It’s great to see both new and familiar faces joining the AWS Heroes program, a worldwide initiative that acknowledges individuals who have truly gone above and beyond to share knowledge in technical communities. Get to know them in the blog post!

DFL Bundesliga Data Shootout – DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga launched a code competition, powered by AWS: the Bundesliga Data Shootout. The task: Develop a computer vision model to classify events on the pitch. Join the competition as an individual or in a team and win prizes.

Become an AWS GameDay World Champion – AWS GameDay is an interactive, team-based learning experience designed to put your AWS skills to the test by solving real-world problems in a gamified, risk-free environment. Developers of all skill levels can get in on the action, to compete for worldwide glory, as well as a chance to claim the top prize: an all-expenses-paid trip to AWS re:Invent Las Vegas 2022!

Learn more about the AWS Impact Accelerator for Black Founders from one of the inaugural members of the program in this blog post. The AWS Impact Accelerator is a series of programs designed to help high-potential, pre-seed start-ups led by underrepresented founders succeed.

Upcoming AWS Events
Check your calendars and sign up for these AWS events:

AWS Global Summits – AWS Global Summits are free events that bring the cloud computing community together to connect, collaborate, and learn about AWS.

Registration is open for the following in-person AWS Summits that might be close to you in August and September: Canberra (August 31), Ottawa (September 8), New Delhi (September 9), and Mexico City (September 21–22), Bogotá (October 4), and Singapore (October 6).

AWS Community Days – AWS Community Day events are community-led conferences that deliver a peer-to-peer learning experience, providing developers with a venue for them to acquire AWS knowledge in their preferred way: from one another.

In September, the AWS community will host events in the Bay Area, California (September 9) and in Arlington, Virginia (September 30). In October, you can join Community Days in Amersfoort, Netherlands (October 3), in Warsaw, Poland (October 14), and in Dresden, Germany (October 19).

That’s all for this week. Check back next Monday for another Week in Review! And maybe I’ll see you at the AWS Community Day here in the Bay Area!

– Antje

This post is part of our Week in Review series. Check back each week for a quick roundup of interesting news and announcements from AWS!

Announcing the latest AWS Heroes – August 2022

2022-08-25 Ross Barich

Post Syndicated from Ross Barich original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-the-latest-aws-heroes-august-2022/

The global AWS community is filled with passionate builders, eager to learn and explore ways to build better and faster on AWS. Within the AWS community, a select few individuals truly go above and beyond to share their knowledge and inspire others through content creation, event organization, open source contributions, and more. These community leaders are called AWS Heroes, and today we are thrilled to recognize the latest cohort:

Alexey Grigorev – Berlin, Germany

Machine Learning Hero Alexey Grigorev works as a principal data scientist at OLX and he runs DataTalks.Club, a community of 20,000+ data enthusiasts. He has written a few books about machine learning. One of them is Machine Learning Bookcamp, a book for software engineers who want to get into machine learning. A big fan of serverless and AWS Lambda, Alexey likes teaching how to use Lambda and other AWS services for Machine Learning model deployment. He lives in Berlin with his wife and son.

Allen Helton – McKinney, USA

Serverless Hero Allen Helton is a Cloud Architect at Tyler Technologies with a sharp focus on serverless-first development. He has been working in tech since 2012, after graduating with a B.S. in Software Engineering from the University of Texas at Dallas. Allen writes extensively about serverless on his blog Ready, Set, Cloud, where he shares everything from reference architectures to enterprise level production readiness tips. He also regularly engages on serverless topics on Twitter.

Liz Fong-Jones – Vancouver, Canada / Sydney, Australia

Community Hero Liz Fong-Jones is a developer advocate, labor and ethics organizer, and Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with 17+ years of experience. She is an advocate at Honeycomb for the SRE and Observability communities. She led implementation of Service-Level Objectives and adoption of Graviton2/Graviton3 at Honeycomb, and co-authored Observability Engineering. She has served on the OpenTelemetry governance committee and on the SREcon steering committee. She lives in Vancouver, BC with her wife Elly, partners, and a Samoyed/Golden Retriever mix, and in Sydney, NSW. She plays classical piano, leads an EVE Online alliance, and advocates for transgender rights.

Scott Hsieh – New Taipei City, Taiwan

Data Hero Scott Hsieh, also known as Shu-Jeng Hsieh, is a Data Architect at 104 Corporation. He has been sharing content on dev.to and Medium for nearly 2 years and has spoken at 6 events including AWS Summit Taiwan, re:Invent re:Cap, and DevAx::Alliance, mostly on data topics. He became an AWS Community Builder in the end of 2020 and achieved 10 AWS certifications within 1.5 years. Additionally, Scott has created 5 CDK constructs for 5 programming languages which in total are approaching 100K downloads. He is active in the AWS User Group Taiwan Facebook group, and enjoys helping people to grasp AWS services with ease and learning from experts across different fields.

If you’d like to learn more about the new Heroes, or connect with a Hero near you, please visit the AWS Heroes website or browse the AWS Heroes Content Library.

— Ross

New — Fine-Grained Visual Embedding Powered by Amazon QuickSight

2022-08-25 Donnie Prakoso

Post Syndicated from Donnie Prakoso original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-fine-grained-visual-embedding-powered-by-amazon-quicksight/

Today, we are announcing a new feature, Fine-Grained Visual Embedding Powered by Amazon QuickSight. With this feature, individual visualizations from Amazon QuickSight dashboards can now be embedded in high-traffic webpages and applications. Additionally, this feature enables you to provide rich insights for your end-users where they need them the most, without server or software setup or infrastructure management.

This is a quick preview of this new feature:

Quick Preview of Fine-Grained Visual Embedding Powered by Amazon QuickSight

Quick Preview: Fine-Grained Visual Embedding Powered by Amazon QuickSight

New Feature: Fine-Grained Visual Embedding

Amazon QuickSight is a cloud-based embeddable and ML-powered business intelligence (BI) service that delivers interactive data visualizations, analysis, and reporting to enable data-driven decision-making within the organization and with the end user, without servers to manage.

Amazon QuickSight supports embedded analytics, a feature that enables you to incorporate branded analytics into internal portals or public sites. Customers can easily embed interactive dashboards, natural language querying (NLQ), or the complete BI-authoring experience seamlessly in their applications. This provides convenience for your end users to simplify the process of data-informed decisions.

Our customers want to be able to embed visuals from various dashboards into their applications and websites in order to bring forth deeply integrated data-driven experiences to enhance end user experiences. Previously, customers needed to build, scale, and maintain generation layer and charting libraries to embed individual visualizations.

With Fine-Grained Visual Embedding Powered by Amazon QuickSight, developers and ISVs now have the ability to embed any visuals from dashboards into their applications using APIs. As for enterprises, they can embed visuals into their internal sites using 1-Click Embedding. For end-users, Fine-Grained Visual Embedding provides a seamless and integrated experience to access a variety of key data visuals to get insights.

Here’s an example view where we can embed a visual using this feature in a sample web application page:

Sample Web App with a Visual

The embedded visuals are automatically updated when the source data changes or when the visual is updated. Embedded visuals scale automatically without the need to manage servers from your end and are optimized for high performance on high-traffic pages.

Get Started with Fine-Grained Visual Embedding

There are two ways to use Fine-Grained Visual Embedding, with 1-Click Embedding or using QuickSight APIs to generate the embed URL. The 1-Click Embedding feature makes it easy for nontechnical users to generate embed code that can be inserted directly into internal portals or public sites. Using APIs, ISVs and developers can embed rich visuals in their applications. Furthermore, with row-level security, data access is secured enabling users to access only their data.

To start using this feature, let’s turn to the Amazon QuickSight dashboard. Here, I already have a dashboard using a dataset that you can follow from the Create an Amazon QuickSight dashboard using sample data documentation.

Amazon QuickSight Dashboard Using Sample Data

Using 1-Click Embedding to Generate Embed Code

Amazon QuickSight supports 1-Click Embedding—a feature that allows you to get the embed code without any development efforts. There are two types of 1-Click Embedding: 1) 1-Click Enterprise Embedding and 2) 1-Click Public Embedding. With enterprise embedding, it allows you to enable access to the dashboard with registered users in your account. In public embedding, you can enable access to the dashboards for anyone.

To get the embed code via 1-Click Embedding, you can select the visual you want to embed, then select Menu Options and choose Embed visual.

Select Embed visual from Menu Options

Once you select Embed visual, you will get a new menu on the right side, which contains the details of the visual you selected.

Copy the Embed code

The Embed code section contains iframe code that you can insert into your application, portal, or website. Domains hosting these embedded visuals must be on an allow list, which you can learn more about on the Allow listing static domains page. This is a sample display of how the embed code is rendered:

Sample Display of Fine-Grained Visual Embedding Powered by Amazon QuickSight

When there is a change in the visual source within Amazon QuickSight, it will also be reflected within the web app or app where you embed your visuals. In addition, embedded visuals from QuickSight will automatically scale as traffic on the website grows.

From a customer’s perspective, 1-Click Embedding will help customers provide key data visuals from various dashboards in Amazon QuickSight for end users anywhere on their websites without requiring technical skills.

Programmatically Generate Embed URL

In addition to the 1-Click Embedding, you can also perform visual embedding through the API. To perform visual embedding through the API, you can use AWS CLI or SDK to call the API GenerateEmbedUrlForAnonymousUser or GenerateEmbedUrlForRegisteredUser.

You can use the GenerateEmbedUrlForAnonymousUser API to embed visuals in your applications for your users without provisioning them in Amazon QuickSight.

You can also use GenerateEmbedUrlForRegisteredUser API to embed visuals in your application for your users that are provisioned in Amazon QuickSight.

The API works by passing the ExperienceConfiguration parameter in DashboardVisual with the properties below:

{
    'DashboardId':'<DASHBOARD_ID>',  
    'SheetId':'<SHEET_ID>',  
    'VisualId':'<VISUAL_ID>'  
}

Then, to get the IDs for Dashboard, Sheet, and Visual, you can find the value of these properties under IDs for Developers menu section for the visual you selected.

IDs for Developers

Using CLI to Generate Embed URL

After collecting all the required IDs, we can pass them as parameters. Here’s an example API command to generate an embed URL:

aws quicksight generate-embed-url-for-anonymous-user \  
    --aws-account-id <ACCOUNT_ID> \  
    --session-lifetime-in-minutes 15 \          
    --authorized-resource-arns “<DASHBOARD_ARN>”           
    --namespace default           
    --experience-configuration '{"DashboardVisual": \
        {
            "InitialDashboardVisualId": \
            {  
                    "DashboardId”:”<DASHBOARD_ID>”,  \
                    "SheetId”:”<SHEET_ID>”,  \
                    "VisualId”:”<VISUAL_ID”  \
            }  
        }}'

If the request is successful, you will get the following response. You can then use the EmbedUrl property within your web or application.

{  
    "Status": 200,  
    "EmbedUrl": “<EMBED_URL>”,  
    "RequestId": “<REQUEST_ID>”,  
    "AnonymousUserArn": “<ARN>”  
}

Using SDK to Generate Embed URL

In addition to the AWS CLI, generating embed URLs can also be done using the AWS SDK. Here’s an example in Python:

response = client.generate_embed_url_for_anonymous_user(  
    AwsAccountId='123456789012',  
    SessionLifetimeInMinutes=15,  
    Namespace='default',  
    AuthorizedResourceArns=[  
        '<DASHBOARD_ARN>',  
    ],  
    ExperienceConfiguration={  
        'DashboardVisual': {  
            'InitialDashboardVisualId': {  
                'DashboardId':'<DASHBOARD_ID>',  
                'SheetId':'<SHEET_ID>',  
                'VisualId':'<VISUAL_ID>'  
            }  
        }  
    },  
    AllowedDomains=[  
        'https://YOUR-DOMAIN.com',  
    ]  
)

With API, you have the flexibility to configure allowed domains at runtime. From the example above, you can pass your domains in AllowedDomains property.

When the request is successful, the API will return a successful response, along with a URL from Visual Embedding that can be inserted into external web apps. Example response as below:

{
    "Status": 200,  
    "EmbedUrl":"<EMBED_URL>",  
    "RequestId": "<REQUEST_ID>”
}

Using the API approach gives developers the flexibility to programmatically generate embed URLs. Developers can specify the access for visuals for nonregistered and registered users in Amazon QuickSight.

Demo

To see Fine-Grained Visual Embedding Powered by Amazon QuickSight in action, have a look at this demo:

Pricing and Availability

You can use this new feature, Fine-Grained Visual Embedding in Amazon QuickSight Enterprise Edition, in all supported Regions. For more detailed information, please visit the documentation page.

Happy building,

— Donnie

New – AWS Support App in Slack to Manage Support Cases

2022-08-24 Channy Yun

Post Syndicated from Channy Yun original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-support-app-in-slack-to-manage-support-cases/

ChatOps speeds up software development and operations by enabling DevOps teams to use chat clients and chatbots to communicate and run tasks. DevOps engineers have increasingly moved their monitoring, system management, continuous integration (CI), and continuous delivery (CD) workflows to chat applications in order to streamline activities in a single place and enable better collaboration within organizations.

For example, AWS Chatbot enables ChatOps for AWS to monitor and respond to operational events. AWS Chatbot processes AWS service notifications from Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) and forwards them to your Slack channel or Amazon Chime chat rooms so teams can analyze and act on them immediately, regardless of location. However, AWS Support customers had to switch applications from Slack to the AWS Support Center console to access and engage with AWS Support, moving them away from critical operation channels where essential group communications take place.

Today we are announcing the new AWS Support App, which enables you to directly manage your technical, billing, and account support cases, increase service quotas in Slack, and initiate a live chat with AWS Support engineers in Slack channels. You can then search for, respond to, and participate in group chats with AWS Support engineers to resolve support cases from your Slack channels.

With the AWS Support App in Slack, you can integrate AWS Support into your team workflows to improve collaboration. When creating, updating, or monitoring a support case status, your team members keep up to date in real time. They can also easily search previous cases to find recommendations and solutions and instantly share those details with all team members without having to switch applications.

Configuring the AWS Support App in Slack
The AWS Support App in Slack is now available to all customers with Business, Enterprise On-ramp, or Enterprise Support at no additional charge. If you have a Basic or Developer plan, you can upgrade your support plan.

For connecting your Slack workspace and channel for your organization, you should have access to add apps to your Slack workspace and an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) user or role with the required permissions. To learn more, see examples of IAM policies to manage access.

To get started with the AWS Support App in Slack, visit the AWS Support Center console and choose Authorize workspace.

When prompted to give permissions to access your Slack workspace, you can select your workspace to connect and choose Allow.

Now you can see your workspace on the Slack configuration page. To add more workspaces, choose Add workspace and repeat this step. You can add up to five workspaces to your account.

After you authorize your Slack workspace, you can add your Slack channels by choosing Add channel. You can add up to 20 channels for a single account. A single Slack channel can have up to 100 AWS accounts.

Choose the workspace name that you previously authorized, the Slack channel ID included in the channel link and the value that looks like C01234A5BCD where you invited the AWS Support App by /invite @awssupport command, the IAM role that you created for the AWS Support App.

You can also set notifications for how to get notified about cases and choose at least one of the options in New and reopened cases, Case correspondences, or Resolved cases for notification types. If you select High-severity cases, you can get notified for only cases that affect a production system or higher by the severity levels.

After adding a new channel, you can now open the Slack channel and manage support cases and live chats with AWS Support engineers.

Managing Support Cases in the Slack Channel
After you add your Slack workspace and channel, you can create, search, resolve, and reopen your support case in your Slack channel.

In your Slack channel, when you enter /awssupport create-case command, you can create a support case to specify the subject, description, issue type, service, category, severity, and contact method — either email and Slack notifications or live chat in Slack.

If you choose Live chat in Slack, you can enter the names of other members. AWS Support App will create a new chat channel for the created support case and will automatically add you, the members that you specified, and AWS Support engineers.

After reviewing the information you provided, you can create a support case. You can also choose Share to channel to share the search results with the channel.

In your Slack channel, when you enter the /awssupport search-case command, you can search support cases for a specific AWS account, data range, and case status, such as open or resolved.

You can choose See details to see more information about a case. When you see details for a support case, you can resolve or reopen specific support cases directly.

Initiating Live Chat Sessions with AWS Support Engineers
If you chose the live chat option when you created your case, the AWS Support App creates a chat channel for you and an AWS Support engineer. You can use this chat channel to communicate with a support engineer and any others that you invited to the live chat.

To join a live chat session with AWS Support, navigate to the channel name that the AWS Support App created for you. The live channel name contains your support case ID, such as awscase-1234567890. Anyone who joins your live chat channel can view details about this specific support case. We strongly recommend that you only add users that require access to your support cases.

When a support engineer joins the channel, you can chat with a support engineer about your support case and upload any file attachments to the channel. The AWS Support App automatically saves your files and chat log to your case correspondence.

To stop chatting with the support agent, choose End chat or enter the /awssupport endchat command. The support agent will leave the channel and the AWS Support App will stop recording the live chat. You can find the chat history attached to the case correspondence for this support case. If the issue has been resolved, you can choose Resolve case from the pinned message to show the case details in the chat channel or enter the /awssupport resolve command.

When you manage support cases or join live chats for your account in the Slack channel, you can view the case correspondences to determine whether the case has been updated in the Slack channel. You can also audit the Support API calls the application made on behalf of users via logs in AWS CloudTrail. To learn more, see Logging AWS Support API calls using AWS CloudTrail.

Requesting Service Quota Increases
In your Slack channel, when you enter the /awssupport service-quota-increase command, you can request to increase the service quota for a specific AWS account, AWS Region, service name, quota name, and requested value for the quota increase.

Now Available
The AWS Support App in Slack is now available to all customers with Business, Enterprise On-ramp, or Enterprise Support at no additional charge. If you have a Basic or Developer plan, you can upgrade your support plan. To learn more, see Manage support cases with the AWS Support App or contact your usual AWS Support contacts.

– Channy

AWS Week in Review – August 22, 2022

2022-08-22 Marcia Villalba

Post Syndicated from Marcia Villalba original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-week-in-review-august-22-2022/

This post is part of our Week in Review series. Check back each week for a quick roundup of interesting news and announcements from AWS!

I’m back from my summer holidays and ready to get up to date with the latest AWS news from last week!

Last Week’s Launches
Here are some launches that got my attention during the previous week.

Amazon CloudFront now supports HTTP/3 requests over QUIC. The main benefits of HTTP/3 are faster connection times and fewer round trips in the handshake process. HTTP/3 is available in all 410+ CloudFront edge locations worldwide, and there is no additional charge for using this feature. Read Channy’s blog post about this launch to learn more about it and how to enable it in your applications.

Amazon Chime has announced a couple of really cool features for their SDK. Now you can compose video by concatenating video with multiple attendees, including audio, content and transcriptions. Also, Amazon Chime SDK launched the live connector pipelines that send real-time video from your applications to streaming platforms such as Amazon Interactive Video Service (IVS) or AWS Elemental MediaLive. Now building real-time streaming applications becomes easier.

AWS Cost Anomaly Detection has launched a simplified interface for anomaly exploration. Now it is easier to monitor spending patterns to detect and alert anomalous spend.

Amazon DynamoDB now supports bulk imports from Amazon S3 to a new table. This new launch makes it easier to migrate and load data into a new DynamoDB table. This is a great use for migrations, to load test data into your applications, thereby simplifying disaster recovery, among other things.

Amazon MSK Serverless, a new capability from Amazon MSK launched in the spring of this year, now has support for AWS CloudFormation and Terraform. This allows you to describe and provision Amazon MSK Serverless clusters using code.

For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on the What’s New at AWS page.

Other AWS News
Some other updates and news that you may have missed:

This week there were a couple of stories that caught my eye. The first one is about Grillo, a social impact enterprise focused on seismology, and how they used AWS to build a low-cost earthquake early warning system. The second one is from the AWS Localization team about how they use Amazon Translate to scale their localization in order to remove language barriers and make AWS content more accessible.

Podcast Charlas Técnicas de AWS – If you understand Spanish, this podcast is for you. Podcast Charlas Técnicas is one of the official AWS podcasts in Spanish, and every other week there is a new episode. The podcast is meant for builders, and it shares stories about how customers implemented and learned to use AWS services, how to architect applications, and how to use new services. You can listen to all the episodes directly from your favorite podcast app or at AWS Podcast en español.

Upcoming AWS Events
Check your calendars and sign up for these AWS events:

AWS Summits – Registration is open for upcoming in-person AWS Summits. Find the one closest to you: Chicago (August 28), Canberra (August 31), Ottawa (September 8), New Delhi (September 9), Mexico City (September 21–22), Bogota (October 4), and Singapore (October 6).

GOTO EDA Day 2022 – Registration is open for the in-person event about Event Driven Architectures (EDA) hosted in London on September 1. There will be a great line of speakers talking about the best practices for building EDA with serverless services.

AWS Virtual Workshop – Registration is open for the free virtual workshop about Amazon DocumentDB: Getting Started and Business Continuity Planning on August 24.

AWS .NET Enterprise Developer Days 2022 – Registration for this free event is now open. This is a 2-day, in-person event on September 7-8 at the Palmer Events Center in Austin, Texas, and a 2-day virtual event on September 13-14.

That’s all for this week. Check back next Monday for another Week in Review!

— Marcia

AWS Trusted Advisor – New Priority Capability

2022-08-17 Sébastien Stormacq

Post Syndicated from Sébastien Stormacq original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-trusted-advisor-new-priority-capability/

AWS Trusted Advisor is a service that continuously analyzes your AWS accounts and provides recommendations to help you to follow AWS best practices and AWS Well-Architected guidelines. Trusted Advisor implements a series of checks. These checks identify ways to optimize your AWS infrastructure, improve security and performance, reduce costs, and monitor service quotas.

Today, we are making available to all Enterprise Support customers a new capability for AWS Trusted Advisor: Trusted Advisor Priority. It gives you prioritized and context-driven recommendations manually curated by your AWS account team, based on their knowledge of your environment and the machine-generated checks from AWS Services.

Trusted Advisor implements over 200 checks in five categories: cost optimization, performance, security, fault tolerance, and service limits. Here is a view of the current Trusted Advisor dashboard.

The list of checks available on your account depends on your level of support. When you have AWS Basic Support, available to all customers, or AWS Developer Support, you have access to core security and service limits checks. When you have AWS Business Support or AWS Enterprise Support, you have access to all checks.

The new Priority capability gives you a prioritized view of critical risks. It shows prioritized, contextual recommendations and actionable insights based on your business outcomes and what’s important to you. It also surfaces risks proactively identified by your AWS account team to alert and address critical cloud risks stemming from deviations from AWS best practices. It is designed to help you: IT leaders, technical decisions makers, and members of a Cloud Center of Excellence.

The account team takes advantage of their understanding of your production accounts and business-critical workloads. By working with you, they identify what’s important to you, and the outcomes or goals you wish to achieve. For example, they know about your business viewpoint whether it is exiting a data center by the end of the year, launching a new product, expanding to a new geography, or migrating a workload to the cloud.

Trusted Advisor uses multiple sources to define the priorities. On one side, it uses signals from other AWS services, such as AWS Compute Optimizer, Amazon GuardDuty, or VPC Flow Logs. On the other side, it uses context manually curated by your AWS account team (Account Manager, Technical Account Manager, Solutions Architect, Customer Solutions Manager, and others) and the knowledge they have about your production accounts, business-critical applications and critical workloads. You will be guided to opportunities to take advantage of AWS Support engagements like a Cost Optimization workshop when the account team believes there are opportunities to reduce costs, a deep dive with a service team, or an Infrastructure Event Management for an upcoming workload migration.

You will be alerted to risks in your deployments on AWS, using sources such as the AWS Well-Architected framework. We will highlight and bring to attention any open high risk issues (HRIs) from recently conducted Well-Architected reviews. We also run campaigns to proactively identify, alert, and reduce single points of failures, such as single Availability Zone deployments. This verifies that you don’t have a single point of failures for production applications that are used for mission-critical processes, that drive significant revenue, or have regulated availability requirements. Trusted Advisor helps you to detect, raise awareness, and provide prescriptive guidance.

Here is a diagram to visualize my mental model for Trusted Advisor Priority:

Trusted Advisor Priority works with AWS Organizations: it aggregates all recommendations from member accounts in your management account or designed delegated administrator. You may delegate access to Trusted Advisor Priority to a maximum of five other AWS accounts. Trusted Advisor Priority comes with a new AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy to help you manage access to the capability. Finally, you can also configure to receive daily and weekly email digests of all prioritized notifications to the alternate contacts you set up in the management account or each delegated admin account.

Let’s See Trusted Advisor Priority in Action
I open the AWS Management Console and navigate to Trusted Advisor. I notice a new navigation entry on the left menu. It is the default view for Enterprise Support customers.

The Trusted Advisor Priority main screen summarizes the number of Pending response and In progress recommendations. It shares some time-related statistics on the right side of the screen. I can start to look at the Active prioritized recommendations list on the bottom half of the screen.

Recommendations are divided into two panels: Active and Closed. The Active tab includes recommendations that have been surfaced to you and which you are actively working on. The Closed tab includes recommendations that have been resolved. All account team prioritized recommendations are presented with a series of searchable and sortable columns. I see the recommendation name, status, source, category, and age.

The list gives me details about the category, the age, and the status of the recommendations. The Source column distinguishes between auto-detected and manually identified opportunities. The Category column shows the category from Trusted Advisor (cost optimization, performance, security, fault tolerance, and service limits). The Age column shows me how long it’s been since the recommendation was first shared. This helps with tracking the time to resolution for each of these items.

I can select any recommendation to drill down into the details. In this example, I select the second one: Amazon RDS Public Snapshots. This is a recommendation in the Security category.

Recommendations are actionable, and they give you a real course of action to respond to the issue. In this case, it suggests modifying the snapshot configuration and removing the public flag that makes the database snapshot available to all AWS customers.

Trusted Advisor Priority provides a closed-loop feedback mechanism where I have the ability to accept or reject a recommendation if I don’t think the issue is relevant to my account.

The information is aggregated at an Organizations level. When you are using Organizations to group accounts to reflect your business units, the recommendations are aggregated and present an overall risk posture across your business units.

As an infrastructure manager, I can either Accept the recommendation and take action or Reject it because it is not a risk or it is something I will not fix and want to remove the recommendation from my list.

Pricing and Availability
AWS Trusted Advisor Priority is available in all commercial AWS Regions where Trusted Advisor is available now, except the two AWS Regions in China. It is available at no additional cost for Enterprise Support customers.

Trusted Advisor Priority will not replace your Technical Account Manager or Solution Architect. They are key in providing tailored guidance and working with you through all phases of managing your cloud applications. Trusted Advisor Priority provides anytime access to tailored, context-aware, risk-mitigating recommendations and insights from your account team and optimizes your engagement with AWS. It will not reduce your access to your account team in any way but rather will make it easier for you to collaborate with them on your most important priorities.

You can start to use Trusted Advisor Priority today.

And now, go build!

— seb

A Decade of Ever-Increasing Provisioned IOPS for Amazon EBS

2022-08-16 Jeff Barr

Post Syndicated from Jeff Barr original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/a-decade-of-ever-increasing-provisioned-iops-for-amazon-ebs/

Progress is often best appreciated in retrospect. It is often the case that a steady stream of incremental improvements over a long period of time ultimately adds up to a significant level of change. Today, ten years after we first launched the Provisioned IOPS feature for Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), I strongly believe that to be the case.

All About the IOPS
Let’s start with a quick review of IOPS, which is short for Input/Output Operations per Second. This is a number which is commonly used to characterize the performance of a storage device, and higher numbers mean better performance. In many cases, applications that generate high IOPS values will use threads, asynchronous I/O operations, and/or other forms of parallelism.

The Road to Provisioned IOPS
When we launched Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) back in 2006 (Amazon EC2 Beta), the m1.small instances had a now-paltry 160 GiB of local disk storage. This storage had the same lifetime as the instance, and disappeared if the instance crashed or was terminated. In the run-up to the beta, potential customers told us that they could build applications even without persistent storage. During the two years between the EC2 beta and the 2008 launch of Amazon EBS, those customers were able to gain valuable experience with EC2 and to deploy powerful, scalable applications. As a reference point, these early volumes were able to deliver an average of about 100 IOPS, with bursting beyond that on a best-effort basis.

Evolution of Provisioned IOPS
As our early customers gained experience with EC2 and EBS, they asked us for more I/O performance and more flexibility. In my 2012 post (Fast Forward – Provisioned IOPS for EBS Volumes), I first told you about the then-new Provisioned IOPS (PIOPS) volumes and also introduced the concept of EBS-Optimized instances. These new volumes found a ready audience and enabled even more types of applications.

Over the years, as our customer base has become increasingly diverse, we have added new features and volume types to EBS, while also pushing forward on performance, durability, and availability. Here’s a family tree to help put some of this into context:

Today, EBS handles trillions of input/output operations daily, and supports seven distinct volume types each with a specific set of performance characteristics, maximum volume sizes, use cases, and prices. From that 2012 starting point where a single PIOPS volume could deliver up to 1000 IOPS, today’s high-end io2 Block Express volumes can deliver up to 256,000 IOPS.

Inside io2 Block Express
Let’s dive in a bit and take a closer look at io2 Block Express. These volumes make use of multiple Nitro System components including AWS Nitro SSD storage and the Nitro Card for EBS. The io2 Block Express volumes can be as large as 64 TiB, and can deliver up to 256,000 IOPS with 99.999% durability and up to 4,000 MiB/s of throughput. This performance makes them suitable for the most demanding mission-critical workloads, those that require sustained high performance and sub-millisecond latency. On the network side, the io2 Block Express volumes make use of a Scalable Reliable Datagram (SRD) protocol that is designed to deliver consistent high performance on complex, multipath networks (read A Cloud-Optimized Transport Protocol for Elastic and Scalable HPC to learn a lot more). You can use these volumes with X2idn, X2iedn, R5b, and C7g instances today, with support for additional instance types in the works.

Your Turn
Here are some resources to help you to learn more about EBS and Provisioned IOPS:

EBS Home Page
Provisioned IOPS Home Page
AWS Free Tier – 30 GB of EBS storage for the first 12 months

I can’t wait to see what the second decade holds for EBS and Provisioned IOPS!

— Jeff;

New – HTTP/3 Support for Amazon CloudFront

2022-08-16 Channy Yun

Post Syndicated from Channy Yun original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-http-3-support-for-amazon-cloudfront/

Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) service, a network of interconnected servers that is geographically closer to the users and reaches their computers much faster. Amazon CloudFront reduces latency by delivering data through 410+ globally dispersed Points of Presence (PoPs) with automated network mapping and intelligent routing.

With Amazon CloudFront, content, API requests and responses or applications can be delivered over Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) version 1.1, and 2.0 over the latest version of Transport Layer Security (TLS) to encrypt and secure communication between the user client and CloudFront.

Today we are adding HTTP version 3.0 (HTTP/3) support for Amazon CloudFront. HTTP/3 uses QUIC, a user datagram protocol-based, stream-multiplexed, and secure transport protocol that combines and improves upon the capabilities of existing transmission control protocol (TCP), TLS, and HTTP/2. Now, you can enable HTTP/3 for end user connections in all new and existing CloudFront distributions on all edge locations worldwide, and there is no additional charge for using this feature.

What is HTTP/3?
HTTP/3 uses QUIC and overcomes many of TCP’s limitations and bring those benefits to HTTP. When using existing HTTP/2 over TCP and TLS, TCP needs a handshake to establish a session between a client and server, and TLS also needs its own handshake to ensure that the session is secured. Each handshake has to make the full round trip between client and server, which can take a long time when client and server and far apart, network-wise. But, QUIC only needs a single handshake to establish a secure session.

Also, TCP is understood and manipulated by a myriad of different middleboxes, such as firewalls and network address translation (NAT) devices. QUIC uses UDP as its basis to allow packet flows in an enterprise or public network and is fully encrypted, including the metadata, which makes middleboxes unable to inspect or manipulate its details.

HTTP/3 streams are multiplexed independently to eliminate head-of-line blocking between requests and responses. This is possible because stream multiplexing occurs in the transport layer as opposed to the application layer like HTTP/2 over TCP. This enables web applications to perform faster, especially over slow networks and latency-sensitive connections.

Benefits of HTTP/3 on CloudFront
Our customers always want to provide faster, more responsive and secure experience on the web for end users. HTTP/3 provides benefits to all CloudFront customers in the form of faster connection times, stream multiplexing, client-side connection migration, and fewer round trips in the handshake process to reduce error rates.

QUIC connections over UDP support connection reuse with a connection ID independent from IP address/port tuples so users have no interruption or impact. Customers operating in countries with low network connectivity will see improved performance from their applications.

CloudFront’s HTTP/3 support provides enhanced security built on top of s2n-quic, an open-source Rust implementation of the QUIC protocol added to our set of AWS encryption open-source libraries, both with a strong emphasis on efficiency and performance.

If you enable HTTP/3 in CloudFront distributions, the users can make HTTP/3 viewer request to CloudFront edge locations. Past the edge location, we have highly reliable networks within AWS Cloud and CloudFront will continue to use HTTP/1.1 for origin fetches. So, you don’t need to make any server-side changes in order to make your content accessible via HTTP/3.

For some types of applications, like those requiring an HTTP client library to make HTTP requests, customers may need to update their HTTP client library to a version that supports HTTP/3. But if for some operational reason clients cannot establish a QUIC connection, they can fall back to another supported protocol such as HTTP/1.1 or HTTP/2.

How to Enable HTTP/3
To enable HTTP/3 connection, you can edit the distribution configuration through the CloudFront console. You can select HTTP/3 in Supported HTTP versions on an existing distribution or create a new distribution without any changes to origin. You can use the UpdateDistribution API or use the CloudFormation template.

After deploying your distribution, you can connect with a browser that supports HTTP/3, such as the latest version of Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Microsoft Edge, and Apple Safari after turning it on manually. To learn more about web browser support, see the Can I Use – HTTP/3 Support page.

From web developer tools in your browser, you can see the HTTP/3 requests made when a page is loaded from the CloudFront. The image below is an example of Mozilla Firefox.

You can also add HTTP/3 support to Curl and test from the command line:

$ curl --http3 -i https://d1e0fmnut9xxxxx.cloudfront.net/speed.html
HTTP/3 200
content-type: text/html
content-length: 9286
date: Fri, 05 Aug 2022 15:49:52 GMT
last-modified: Thu, 28 Jul 2022 00:50:38 GMT
etag: "d928997023f6479537940324aeddabb3"
x-amz-version-id: mdUmFuUfVaSHPseoVPRoOKGuUkzWeUhK
accept-ranges: bytes
server: AmazonS3
vary: Origin
x-cache: Miss from cloudfront
via: 1.1 6e4f43c5af08f740d02d21f990dfbe80.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
x-amz-cf-pop: ICN54-C2
alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=86400
x-amz-cf-id: 6fy8rrUrtqDMrgoc7iJ73kzzXzHz7LQDg73R0lez7_nEXa3h9uAlCQ==

Customer Stories
Several AWS customers including Snap, Zillow, AC3/Movember, Audible, Skyscanner have already enabled HTTP/3 on their CloudFront distributions. Here are some of their voices:

Snap Inc is a social media company that offers Snapchat, an app that offers a fast and fun way to connect with close friends to its community around the world. On AWS, Snap now supports more than 306 million Snapchat users sending over 5.4 billion Snaps daily with 20 percent less latency than its prior architecture.

Mahmoud Ragab, Software Engineering Manager at Snapchat said:

“Snapchat helps millions of people around the world to share moments with friends. At Snapchat, we strive to be the fastest way to communicate. This is why we have been partnering with Amazon Cloudfront for fast, high-performance, low latency content delivery, leveraging QUIC on Cloudfront.

It offers significant advantages while sending and receiving content, especially in networks with lossy signals and intermittent connectivity. Improvements offered by QUIC, like zero round-trip time (0-RTT) connection setup and improved congestion control enables an average of 10% reduction in time to first byte (TTFB) while lowering overall error rates. Lower network latencies and errors make Snapchat better for people all over the world.

With early access to QUIC, we’ve been able to experiment and quickly iterate and improve server-side implementation and optimize integration between the client and the server. Both companies will continue to collaborate together as QUIC is made more widely available.”

Zillow is a real estate tech company that offer its customers an on-demand experience for selling, buying, renting and financing with transparency and nearly seamless end-to-end service. Since 2015, Zillow has increased the availability of its imaging system by using Amazon S3 and Amazon CloudFront.

Craig Link, Chief Cloud Architect at Zillow said:

“We are excited about the launch of HTTP/3 support for Amazon CloudFront. Enabling HTTP/3 on CloudFront was a seamless transition and our synthetic test and ad-hoc usage continued working without issue.”

AC3 is an Australia-based AWS Managed Services partner and has supported our customer, Movember Foundation, one of the leading charities for men’s health. Running an international charity that handles donations, data, events, and localized websites in 21 countries can pose some technical challenges. Born in the cloud, Movember has leveraged AWS technology in adopting new working models, ensuring a flexible IT platform, and innovating faster.

Greg Cockburn, Head of Hyperscale Cloud at AC3 said:

“AC3 is excited to work with their longtime partner Movember enabling HTTP3 on their CloudFront distributions serving web and API frontends and is encouraged by the performance improvements seen in the initial results.”

Now Available
The HTTP/3 support for Amazon CloudFront is now available in all 410+ CloudFront edge locations worldwide with no additional charge for using this feature. To learn more, see the FAQ and Developer Guide of Amazon CloudFront. Please send feedback to AWS re:Post for Amazon CloudFront or through your usual AWS support contacts.

– Channy

AWS Week in Review – August 15, 2022

2022-08-15 Channy Yun

Post Syndicated from Channy Yun original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-week-in-review-august-15-2022/

I love the AWS Twitch channel for watching interesting online live shows such as AWS On Air, Containers from the Couch, and Serverless Office Hours.

Last week, AWS Storage Day 2022 was hosted virtually on the AWS Twitch channel and covered recent announcements and insights that address customers’ needs to reduce and optimize storage costs and build data resiliency into their organization. For example, we pre-announced Amazon File Cache, an upcoming new service on AWS that accelerates and simplifies hybrid cloud workloads. To learn more, watch the on-demand recording.

Two weeks ago, AWS Silicon Innovation Day 2022 was also hosted on the AWS Twitch channel. This event covered an overview of our history of silicon development and provided useful sessions on specific AWS chip innovations such as AWS Nitro, AWS Graviton, AWS Inferencia, and AWS Trainium. To learn more, watch the on-demand recording. If you don’t miss such useful live events or online shows, check out the upcoming live schedule!

Last Week’s Launches
Here are some launches that caught my eye last week:

AWS Private 5G – With the general availability of AWS Private 5G, you can easily make your own private mobile networks with a powerful box of hardware and software for 4G/LTE mobile networks. This cool new service lets you easily install, operate, and scale high reliability and low latency of a private cellular network in a matter of days and does not require any specialized expertise. You pay only for the network coverage and capacity that you need.

AWS DeepRacer Student Community Races – Educators and event organizers can now create their own private virtual autonomous racing league for students by powering a 1/18th scale race car driven by reinforcement learning. They can select their own track, race date, and time and invite students to participate through a unique link for their event. To learn more, see the AWS DeepRacer Developer Guide.

Amazon SageMaker Updates – Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning now supports specifying multiple alternate SageMaker training instance types to make tuning jobs more robust when the preferred instance type is not available due to insufficient capacity. SageMaker Model Pipelines supports securely sharing pipeline entities across AWS accounts and access to shared pipelines through direct API calls. SageMaker Canvas expands capabilities to better prepare and analyze data, including replacing missing values and outliers and the flexibility to choose different sample sizes for your datasets.

Amazon Personalize Updates – Amazon Personalize supports incremental bulk dataset imports, a new option for updating your data and improving the quality of your recommendations. Also, Amazon Personalize allows you to promote specific items in all users’ recommendations based on rules that align with your business goals.

AWS Partner Program Updates – We announce the new AWS Transfer Family Delivery Program for AWS Partners that helps customers build sophisticated Managed File Transfer (MFT) and business-to-business (B2B) file exchange solutions with AWS Transfer Family. Also, we introduce the new AWS Supply Chain Competency, featuring top AWS Partners who provide professional services and cloud-native supply chain solutions on AWS.

For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on the What’s New at AWS page.

Other AWS News
Here are some other news items that you may find interesting:

AWS CDK for Terraform – Two years ago, AWS began collaborating with HashiCorp to develop Cloud Development Kit for Terraform (CDKTF), an open-source tool that provides a developer-friendly workflow for deploying cloud infrastructure with Terraform in their preferred programming language. The CDKTF is now generally available, so try CDK for Terraform and AWS CDK.

Smithy Interface Definition Language (IDL) 2.0 – Smithy is Amazon’s next-generation API modeling language, based on our experience building tens of thousands of services and generating SDKs. This release focuses on improving the developer experience of authoring Smithy models and using code generated from Smithy models.

Serverless Snippets Collection – The AWS Serverless Developer Advocate team introduces the snippets collection to enable reusable, tested, and recommended snippets driven and maintained by the community. Builders can use serverless snippets to find and integrate tools and code examples to help with their development workflow. I recommend searching other useful resources such as Serverless patterns and workflows collection to get started on your serverless application.

Upcoming AWS Events
Check your calendars and sign up for these AWS events:

AWS Summit

AWS Summit – Registration is open for upcoming in-person AWS Summits that might be close to you in August and September: Anaheim (August 18), Chicago (August 28), Canberra (August 31), Ottawa (September 8), New Delhi (September 9), and Mexico City (September 21–22).

AWS Innovate – Data Edition – On August 23, learn how a modern data strategy can support your present and future use cases, including steps to build an end-to-end data solution to store and access, analyze and visualize, and even predict.

AWS Innovate – For Every Application Edition – On August 25, learn about a wide selection of AWS solutions across compute, storage, networking, hybrid, and edge infrastructure to help you scale application resources seamlessly and optimally.

Although these two Innovate events will be held in the Asia Pacific and Japan time zones, you can view on-demand videos for two months following your registration.

Also, we are preparing 16 upcoming online tech talks on August 15–26 to cover a range of topics and expertise levels and feature technical deep dives, demonstrations, customer examples, and live Q&A with AWS experts.

That’s all for this week. Check back next Monday for another Week in Review!

— Channy

This post is part of our Week in Review series. Check back each week for a quick roundup of interesting news and announcements from AWS!

New – AWS Private 5G – Build Your Own Private Mobile Network

2022-08-12 Jeff Barr

Post Syndicated from Jeff Barr original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-private-5g-build-your-own-private-mobile-network/

Back in the mid-1990’s, I had a young family and 5 or 6 PCs in the basement. One day my son Stephen and I bought a single box that contained a bunch of 3COM network cards, a hub, some drivers, and some cables, and spent a pleasant weekend setting up our first home LAN.

Introducing AWS Private 5G
Today I would like to introduce you to AWS Private 5G, the modern, corporate version of that very powerful box of hardware and software. This cool new service lets you design and deploy your own private mobile network in a matter of days. It is easy to install, operate, and scale, and does not require any specialized expertise. You can use the network to communicate with the sensors & actuators in your smart factory, or to provide better connectivity for handheld devices, scanners, and tablets for process automation.

The private mobile network makes use of CBRS spectrum. It supports 4G LTE (Long Term Evolution) today, and will support 5G in the future, both of which give you a consistent, predictable level of throughput with ultra low latency. You get long range coverage, indoors and out, and fine-grained access control.

AWS Private 5G runs on AWS-managed infrastructure. It is self-service and API-driven, and can scale with respect to geographic coverage, device count, and overall throughput. It also works nicely with other parts of AWS, and lets you use AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to control access to both devices and applications.

Getting Started with AWS Private 5G
To get started, I visit the AWS Private 5G Console and click Create network:

I assign a name to my network (JeffCell) and to my site (JeffSite) and click Create network:

The network and the site are created right away. Now I click Create order:

I fill in the shipping address, agree to the pricing (more on that later), and click Create order:

Then I await delivery, and click Acknowledge order to proceed:

The package includes a radio unit and ten SIM cards. The radio unit requires AC power and wired access to the public Internet, along with basic networking (IPv4 and DHCP).

When the order arrives, I click Acknowledge order and confirm that I have received the desired radio unit and SIMs. Then I engage a Certified Professional Installer (CPI) to set it up. As part of the installation process, the installer will enter the latitude, longitude, and elevation of my site.

Things to Know
Here are a couple of important things to know about AWS Private 5G:

Partners – Planning and deploying a private wireless network can be complex and not every enterprise will have the tools to do this work on their own. In addition, CBRS spectrum in the United States requires Certified Professional Installation (CPI) of radios. To address these needs, we are building an ecosystem of partners that can provide customers with radio planning, installation, CPI certification, and implementation of customer use cases. You can access these partners from the AWS Private 5G Console and work with them through the AWS Marketplace.

Deployment Options – In the demo above, I showed you the cloud–based deployment option, which is designed for testing and evaluation purposes, for time-limited deployments, and for deployments that do not use the network in latency-sensitive ways. With this option, the AWS Private 5G Mobile Core runs within a specific AWS Region. We are also working to enable on-premises hosting of the Mobile Core on a Private 5G compute appliance.

CLI and API Access – I can also use the create-network, create-network-site, and acknowledge-order-receipt commands to set up my AWS Private 5G network from the command line. I still need to use the console to place my equipment order.

Scaling and Expansion – Each network supports one radio unit that can provide up to 150 Mbps of throughput spread across up to 100 SIMs. We are working to add support for multiple radio units and greater number of SIM cards per network.

Regions and Locations – We are launching AWS Private 5G in the US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), and US West (Oregon) Regions, and are working to make the service available outside of the United States in the near future.

Pricing – Each radio unit is billed at $10 per hour, with a 60 day minimum.

To learn more, read about AWS Private 5G.

— Jeff;

AWS Week in Review – August 8, 2022

2022-08-08 Steve Roberts

Post Syndicated from Steve Roberts original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-week-in-review-august-8-2022/

As an ex-.NET developer, and now Developer Advocate for .NET at AWS, I’m excited to bring you this week’s Week in Review post, for reasons that will quickly become apparent! There are several updates, customer stories, and events I want to bring to your attention, so let’s dive straight in!

Last Week’s launches
.NET developers, here are two new updates to be aware of—and be sure to check out the events section below for another big announcement:

Developers refactoring applications to a microservice-based architecture should look at new automated recommendations in the AWS Microservice Extractor for .NET that help identify code suitable to refactor as a microservice. Now, instead of developers needing to identify and group classes for extraction, Microservice Extractor identifies common extraction candidates and highlights those in its built-in visualization of an application’s source code. You can use the recommendations as is, or adopt them as a starting point to extract microservices off of a monolithic codebase.
If your application development requires Microsoft Visual Studio 2022, you can now launch on-demand license-included images for Visual Studio 2022 Professional or Enterprise editions on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). The new images make it easy for license administrators to manage and change end-user access to this development environment, when required for projects, via AWS License Manager with no long-term licensing commitments.

Tiered pricing for AWS Lambda will interest customers running large workloads on Lambda. The tiers, based on compute duration (measured in GB-seconds), help you save on monthly costs—automatically. Find out more about the new tiers, and see some worked examples showing just how they can help reduce costs, in this AWS Compute Blog post by Heeki Park, a Principal Solutions Architect for Serverless.

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) released updates for several popular database engines:

RDS for Oracle now supports the April 2022 patch.
RDS for PostgreSQL now supports new minor versions. Besides the version upgrades, there are also updates for the PostgreSQL extensions pglogical, pg_hint_plan, and hll.
RDS for MySQL can now enforce SSL/TLS for client connections to your databases to help enhance transport layer security. You can enforce SSL/TLS by simply enabling the require_secure_transport parameter (disabled by default) via the Amazon RDS Management console, the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), AWS Tools for PowerShell, or using the API. When you enable this parameter, clients will only be able to connect if an encrypted connection can be established.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) expanded availability of the latest generation storage-optimized Is4gen and Im4gn instances to the Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), and Europe (London) Regions. Built on the AWS Nitro System and powered by AWS Graviton2 processors, these instance types feature up to 30 TB of storage using the new custom-designed AWS Nitro System SSDs. They’re ideal for maximizing the storage performance of I/O intensive workloads that continuously read and write from the SSDs in a sustained manner, for example SQL/NoSQL databases, search engines, distributed file systems, and data analytics.

Lastly, there’s a new URL from AWS Support API to use when you need to access the AWS Support Center console. I recommend bookmarking the new URL, https://support.console.aws.amazon.com/, which the team built using the latest architectural standards for high availability and Region redundancy to ensure you’re always able to contact AWS Support via the console.

For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on the What’s New at AWS page.

Other AWS News
Here’s some other news items and customer stories that you may find interesting:

AWS Open Source News and Updates – Catch up on all the latest open-source projects, tools, and demos from the AWS community in installment #123 of the weekly open source newsletter.

In one recent AWS on Air livestream segment from AWS re:MARS, discussing the increasing scale of machine learning (ML) models, our guests mentioned billion-parameter ML models which quite intrigued me. As an ex-developer, my mental model of parameters is a handful of values, if that, supplied to methods or functions—not billions. Of course, I’ve since learned they’re not the same thing! As I continue my own ML learning journey I was particularly interested in reading this Amazon Science blog on 20B-parameter Alexa Teacher Models (AlexaTM). These large-scale multilingual language models can learn new concepts and transfer knowledge from one language or task to another with minimal human input, given only a few examples of a task in a new language.

When developing games intended to run fully in the cloud, what benefits might there be in going fully cloud-native and moving the entire process into the cloud? Find out in this customer story from Return Entertainment, who did just that to build a cloud-native gaming infrastructure in a few months, reducing time and cost with AWS services.

Upcoming events
Check your calendar and sign up for these online and in-person AWS events:

AWS Storage Day: On August 10, tune into this virtual event on twitch.tv/aws, 9:00 AM–4.30 PM PT, where we’ll be diving into building data resiliency into your organization, and how to put data to work to gain insights and realize its potential, while also optimizing your storage costs. Register for the event here.

AWS Global Summits: These free events bring the cloud computing community together to connect, collaborate, and learn about AWS. Registration is open for the following AWS Summits in August:

AWS Summit Anaheim, August 18, at Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, California, USA.
AWS Summit Chicago, August 25, at McCormick Place, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
AWS Summit Canberra, August 31, at the National Convention Center, Canberra, Australia.

AWS .NET Enterprise Developer Days 2022 – North America: Registration for this free, 2-day, in-person event and follow-up 2-day virtual event opened this past week. The in-person event runs September 7–8, at the Palmer Events Center in Austin, Texas. The virtual event runs September 13–14. AWS .NET Enterprise Developer Days (.NET EDD) runs as a mini-conference within the DeveloperWeek Cloud conference (also in-person and virtual). Anyone registering for .NET EDD is eligible for a free pass to DeveloperWeek Cloud, and vice versa! I’m super excited to be helping organize this third .NET event from AWS, our first that has an in-person version. If you’re a .NET developer working with AWS, I encourage you to check it out!

That’s all for this week. Be sure to check back next Monday for another Week in Review roundup!

— Steve
This post is part of our Week in Review series. Check back each week for a quick roundup of interesting news and announcements from AWS!

Graviton Fast Start – A New Program to Help Move Your Workloads to AWS Graviton

2022-08-03 Danilo Poccia

Post Syndicated from Danilo Poccia original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/graviton-fast-start-a-new-program-to-help-move-your-workloads-to-aws-graviton/

With the Graviton Challenge last year, we helped customers migrate to Graviton-based EC2 instances and get up to 40 percent price performance benefit in as little as 4 days. Tens of thousands of customers, including 48 of the top 50 Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) customers, use AWS Graviton processors for their workloads. In addition to EC2, many AWS managed services can run their workloads on Graviton. For most customers, adoption is easy, requiring minimal code changes. However, the effort and time required to move workloads to Graviton depends on a few factors including your software development environment and the technology stack on which your application is built.

This year, we want to take it a step further and make it even easier for customers to adopt Graviton not only through EC2, but also through managed services. Today, we are launching AWS Graviton Fast Start, a new program that makes it even easier to move your workloads to AWS Graviton by providing step-by-step directions for EC2 and other managed services that support the Graviton platform:

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) – EC2 provides the most flexible environment for a migration and can support many kinds of workloads, such as web apps, custom databases, or analytics. You have full control over the interpreted or compiled code running in the EC2 instance. You can also use many open-source and commercial software products that support the Arm64 architecture.
AWS Lambda – Migrating your serverless functions can be really easy, especially if you use an interpreted runtime such as Node.js or Python. Most of the time, you only have to check the compatibility of your software dependencies. I have shown a few examples in this blog post.
AWS Fargate – Fargate works best if your applications are already running in containers or if you are planning to containerize them. By using multi-architecture container images or images that have Arm64 in their image manifest, you get the serverless benefits of Fargate and the price-performance advantages of Graviton.
Amazon Aurora – Relational databases are at the core of many applications. If you need a database compatible with PostgreSQL or MySQL, you can use Amazon Aurora to have a highly performant and globally available database powered by Graviton.
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) – Similarly to Aurora, Amazon RDS engines such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB can provide a fully managed relational database service using Graviton-based instances.
Amazon ElastiCache – When your workload requires ultra-low latency and high throughput, you can speed up your applications with ElastiCache and have a fully managed in-memory cache running on Graviton and compatible with Redis or Memcached.
Amazon EMR – With Amazon EMR, you can run large-scale distributed data processing jobs, interactive SQL queries, and machine learning applications on Graviton using open-source analytics frameworks such as Apache Spark, Apache Hive, and Presto.

Here’s some feedback we got from customers running their workloads on Graviton:

Formula 1 racing told us that Graviton2-based C6gn instances provided the best price performance benefits for some of their computational fluid dynamics (CFD) workloads. More recently, they found that Graviton3 C7g instances are 40 percent faster for the same simulations and expect Graviton3-based instances to become the optimal choice to run all of their CFD workloads.
Honeycomb has 100 percent of their production workloads running on Graviton using EC2 and Lambda. They have tested the high-throughput telemetry ingestion workload they use for their observability platform against early preview instances of Graviton3 and have seen a 35 percent performance increase for their workload over Graviton2. They were able to run 30 percent fewer instances of C7g than C6g serving the same workload and with 30 percent reduced latency. With these instances in production, they expect over 50 percent price performance improvement over x86 instances.
Twitter is working on a multi-year project to leverage Graviton-based EC2 instances to deliver Twitter timelines. As part of their ongoing effort to drive further efficiencies, they tested the new Graviton3-based C7g instances. Across a number of benchmarks representative of their workloads, they found Graviton3-based C7g instances deliver 20-80 percent higher performance compared to Graviton2-based C6g instances, while also reducing tail latencies by as much as 35 percent. They are excited to utilize Graviton3-based instances in the future to realize significant price performance benefits.

With all these options, getting the benefits of running all or part of your workload on AWS Graviton can be easier than you expect. To help you get started, there’s also a free trial on the Graviton-based T4g instances for up to 750 hours per month through December 31st, 2022.

Visit AWS Graviton Fast Start to get step-by-step directions on how to move your workloads to AWS Graviton.

— Danilo

New – Run Visual Studio Software on Amazon EC2 with User-Based License Model

2022-08-03 Channy Yun

Post Syndicated from Channy Yun original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-run-visual-studio-software-on-amazon-ec2-with-user-based-license-model/

We announce the general availability of license-included Visual Studio software on Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2) instances. You can now purchase fully compliant AWS-provided licenses of Visual Studio with a per-user subscription fee. Amazon EC2 provides preconfigured Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) of Visual Studio Enterprise 2022 and Visual Studio Professional 2022. You can launch on-demand Windows instances including Visual Studio and Windows Server licenses without long-term licensing commitments.

Amazon EC2 provides a broad choice of instances, and customers not only have the flexibility of paying for what their end users use but can also provide the capacity and right hardware to their end users. You can simply launch EC2 instances using license-included AMIs, and multiple authorized users can connect to these EC2 instances by using Remote Desktop software. Your administrator can authorize users centrally using AWS License Manager and AWS Managed Microsoft Active Directory (AD).

Configure Visual Studio License with AWS License Manager
As a prerequisite, your administrator needs to create an instance of AWS Managed Microsoft AD and allow AWS License Manager to onboard to it by accepting permission. To set up authorized users, see AWS Managed Microsoft AD documentation.

AWS License Manager makes it easier to manage your software licenses from vendors such as Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, and IBM across AWS and on-premises environments. To display a list of available Visual Studio software licenses, select User-based subscriptions in the AWS Licence Manager console.

You can see listed products to support user-based subscriptions. Each product has a descriptive name, a count of the subscribed users to utilize the product, and whether the subscription has been activated for use with a directory. Also, you are required to purchase Remote Desktop Services SAL licenses in the same way as Visual Studio by authorizing users for those licenses.

When you select Visual Studio Professional, you can see product details and subscribed users. By selecting Subscribe users, you can add authorized users to the license of Visual Studio Professional software.

You can perform the administrative tasks using the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) tools via AWS License Manager APIs. For example, you can subscribe a user to the product in your Active Directory.

$ aws license-manager-user-subscriptions start-product-subscription \
         --username vscode2 \
         --product VISUAL_STUDIO_PROFESSIONAL \
         --identity-provider " \
                "ActiveDirectoryIdentityProvider" = \
                {"DirectoryId" = "d-9067b110b5"}" 
         --endpoint-url https://license-manager-user-subscriptions.us-east-1.amazonaws.com

To launch a Windows instance with preconfigured Visual Studio software, go to the EC2 console and select Launch instances. In the Application and OS Images (Amazon Machine Image), search for “Visual Studio on EC2,” and you can find AMIs under the Quickstart AMIs and AWS Marketplace AMIs tabs.

After launching your Windows instance, your administrator associates a user to the product in the Instances screen of the License Manager console. You can see the listed instances were launched using an AMI to provide the specified product to users who can then be associated.

These steps will be performed by the administrators who are responsible for managing users, instances, and costs across the organization. To learn more about administrative tasks, see User-based subscriptions in AWS License Manager.

Run Visual Studio Software on EC2 Instances
Once administrators authorize end users and launch the instances, you can remotely connect to Visual Studio instances using your AD account information shared by your administrator via Remote Desktop software. That’s all!

The instances deployed for user-based subscriptions must remain as managed nodes with AWS Systems Manager. For more information, see Troubleshooting managed node availability and Troubleshooting SSM Agent in the AWS Systems Manager User Guide.

Now Available
License-included Visual Studio on Amazon EC2 is now available in all AWS commercial and public Regions. You are billed per user for licenses of Visual Studio through a monthly subscription and per vCPU for license-included Windows Server instances on EC2. You can use On-Demand Instances, Reserved Instances, and Savings Plan pricing models like you do today for EC2 instances.

To learn more, visit our License Manager User Based Subscriptions documentation, and please send any feedback to AWS re:Post for EC2 or through your usual AWS Support contacts.

– Channy

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