AWS announces a new version of Kinesis Producer Library (KPL) that supports the AWS SDK for Java 2.x for improved performance and security features. With the new KPL version 1.0, now you can fully remove the dependency on the AWS SDK for Java 1.x. You can upgrade your applications running previous KPL versions to KPL 1.0 without any change in your core data processing logic.

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a serverless data streaming service that enables customers to capture, process, and store real-time data streams at any scale. Kinesis Producer Library is an open-source library that simplifies producer application development, enabling developers to achieve high write throughput to a Kinesis data stream by aggregating and batching the data.

KPL 1.0 is available with Amazon Kinesis Data Streams in all AWS regions. To learn more, see the Amazon Kinesis Data Streams developer guide and KPL 1.0 release notes.

 

​AWS announces a new version of Kinesis Producer Library (KPL) that supports the AWS SDK for Java 2.x for improved performance and security features. With the new KPL version 1.0, now you can fully remove the dependency on the AWS SDK for Java 1.x. You can upgrade your applications running previous KPL versions to KPL 1.0 without any change in your core data processing logic. Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a serverless data streaming service that enables customers to capture, process, and store real-time data streams at any scale. Kinesis Producer Library is an open-source library that simplifies producer application development, enabling developers to achieve high write throughput to a Kinesis data stream by aggregating and batching the data. KPL 1.0 is available with Amazon Kinesis Data Streams in all AWS regions. To learn more, see the Amazon Kinesis Data Streams developer guide and KPL 1.0 release notes.  

You can now use Amazon EBS Local Snapshots in AWS Dedicated Local Zones. Dedicated Local Zones are a type of AWS infrastructure that are fully managed by AWS, built for exclusive use by you or your community, and placed in a location or data center specified by you to help you comply with regulatory requirements.

Customers use EBS Snapshots to back up their EBS volumes for disaster recovery, data migration, and compliance purposes. With Local Snapshots, you can now create backups of your EBS volumes in Dedicated Local Zones and store them within the same geographical boundary as your EBS volumes, helping you meet your data isolation and data residency use cases. You can also create Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies for your account to enforce that snapshots are stored within the Dedicated Local Zone. Additionally, you can use Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM) to automate the creation and retention of local snapshots.

Local Snapshots are available through the AWS Console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), and AWS SDKs. To learn more, see the technical documentation on Local Snapshots.

 

​You can now use Amazon EBS Local Snapshots in AWS Dedicated Local Zones. Dedicated Local Zones are a type of AWS infrastructure that are fully managed by AWS, built for exclusive use by you or your community, and placed in a location or data center specified by you to help you comply with regulatory requirements. Customers use EBS Snapshots to back up their EBS volumes for disaster recovery, data migration, and compliance purposes. With Local Snapshots, you can now create backups of your EBS volumes in Dedicated Local Zones and store them within the same geographical boundary as your EBS volumes, helping you meet your data isolation and data residency use cases. You can also create Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies for your account to enforce that snapshots are stored within the Dedicated Local Zone. Additionally, you can use Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM) to automate the creation and retention of local snapshots. Local Snapshots are available through the AWS Console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), and AWS SDKs. To learn more, see the technical documentation on Local Snapshots.  

Amazon Web Services is announcing the general availability of Amazon EC2 High Memory U7inh instance, a new addition to EC2 High Memory family, built in collaboration with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). Amazon EC2 U7inh instance run on 16-socket HPE Compute Scale-up Server 3200, and are built on the AWS Nitro System to deliver a fully integrated and managed experience consistent with other EC2 instances. Powered by the fourth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids), U7inh instance offers 32TB of memory with 1920 vCPUs. U7inh is the highest performing High Memory instance in Amazon EC2 for running large, compute-intensive in-memory database workloads such as SAP HANA.

U7inh instance is certified by SAP for running SAP S/4HANA, SAP BW/4HANA, Business Suite on HANA, Data Mart Solutions on HANA, and Business Warehouse on HANA in production environments. For details, see the SAP HANA Hardware Directory.

U7inh instance enables 160Gbps of Elastic Block Storage (EBS) bandwidth for storage volumes including io2 Block Express to support IO-intensive use cases such as data hydration, backup and restore. In addition, the instance supports up to 200Gbps of network bandwidth and support ENA Express.

U7inh instance is available in the US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) AWS Regions for purchase via a 3-Yr Savings Plan. To learn more, visit the U7i instances page.
 

 

​Amazon Web Services is announcing the general availability of Amazon EC2 High Memory U7inh instance, a new addition to EC2 High Memory family, built in collaboration with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). Amazon EC2 U7inh instance run on 16-socket HPE Compute Scale-up Server 3200, and are built on the AWS Nitro System to deliver a fully integrated and managed experience consistent with other EC2 instances. Powered by the fourth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids), U7inh instance offers 32TB of memory with 1920 vCPUs. U7inh is the highest performing High Memory instance in Amazon EC2 for running large, compute-intensive in-memory database workloads such as SAP HANA. U7inh instance is certified by SAP for running SAP S/4HANA, SAP BW/4HANA, Business Suite on HANA, Data Mart Solutions on HANA, and Business Warehouse on HANA in production environments. For details, see the SAP HANA Hardware Directory. U7inh instance enables 160Gbps of Elastic Block Storage (EBS) bandwidth for storage volumes including io2 Block Express to support IO-intensive use cases such as data hydration, backup and restore. In addition, the instance supports up to 200Gbps of network bandwidth and support ENA Express. U7inh instance is available in the US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) AWS Regions for purchase via a 3-Yr Savings Plan. To learn more, visit the U7i instances page.    

Today, AWS announces the introduction of Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) support for Bottlerocket, the Linux-based operating system purpose-built for hosting containers, with a focus on security, minimal footprint, and safe updates. An EFA is a network device that you can attach to your Amazon EC2 instance to accelerate Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and High Performance Computing (HPC) applications.

EFA support allows customers to use Bottlerocket with instance types such as G4, G5, P4, and P5 (see full list of the supported instance types). When an EFA device is detected, Bottlerocket automatically reserves huge pages and updates the locked memory limits for containers, ensuring the best possible EFA performance. This integration provides customers with a secure, efficient, and high-performance container hosting environment for their most demanding computational tasks.

EFA support is available on all first-party Bottlerocket Amazon Machine Images starting with version 1.28.0 and is accessible in all commercial AWS Regions and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. To get started with Bottlerocket, see the Bottlerocket User Guide. You can also visit the Bottlerocket product page and explore the Bottlerocket GitHub repository for more information.

 

​Today, AWS announces the introduction of Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) support for Bottlerocket, the Linux-based operating system purpose-built for hosting containers, with a focus on security, minimal footprint, and safe updates. An EFA is a network device that you can attach to your Amazon EC2 instance to accelerate Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and High Performance Computing (HPC) applications. EFA support allows customers to use Bottlerocket with instance types such as G4, G5, P4, and P5 (see full list of the supported instance types). When an EFA device is detected, Bottlerocket automatically reserves huge pages and updates the locked memory limits for containers, ensuring the best possible EFA performance. This integration provides customers with a secure, efficient, and high-performance container hosting environment for their most demanding computational tasks. EFA support is available on all first-party Bottlerocket Amazon Machine Images starting with version 1.28.0 and is accessible in all commercial AWS Regions and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. To get started with Bottlerocket, see the Bottlerocket User Guide. You can also visit the Bottlerocket product page and explore the Bottlerocket GitHub repository for more information.  

Amazon AppStream 2.0 now enables end users to save their client preferences when streaming through a web browser or AppStream 2.0 client application for Windows. These preferences will be applied automatically when the user connects again using the same client, helping to provide consistent experience across sessions.

Users can now customize and save AppStream 2.0 client preferences across sessions when accessing from the same client. These preferences include audio (microphone), video (webcam), regional settings, and streaming mode, and macOS keyboard mappings. Previously, users had to manually re-adjust these settings during each session. By persisting personalized settings across sessions, AppStream 2.0 helps provide a more consistent and efficient user experience.

The functionality is available in AppStream 2.0 Windows client version 1.1.1403 and later, as well as in all supported web browsers. To download and install the latest client, visit Amazon AppStream 2.0 Downloads.

 

​Amazon AppStream 2.0 now enables end users to save their client preferences when streaming through a web browser or AppStream 2.0 client application for Windows. These preferences will be applied automatically when the user connects again using the same client, helping to provide consistent experience across sessions. Users can now customize and save AppStream 2.0 client preferences across sessions when accessing from the same client. These preferences include audio (microphone), video (webcam), regional settings, and streaming mode, and macOS keyboard mappings. Previously, users had to manually re-adjust these settings during each session. By persisting personalized settings across sessions, AppStream 2.0 helps provide a more consistent and efficient user experience. The functionality is available in AppStream 2.0 Windows client version 1.1.1403 and later, as well as in all supported web browsers. To download and install the latest client, visit Amazon AppStream 2.0 Downloads.  

AWS announces the general availability of Instance Bandwidth Configurations (IBC) for 8th generation, Graviton based instances. With IBC, customers can adjust the VPC and EBS service bandwidth, by up to 25%, on their EC2 instances. When increasing the bandwidth for one of the service, say VPC, the available bandwidth for the other service, EBS, is reduced. IBC does not increase your instances burst bandwidth, packets per second, or IOPS capabilities.

With IBC, AWS is providing customers greater flexibility with the allocation of their bandwidth resources to better optimize their workloads. Before today, EC2 instances were predefined with static bandwidth specifications, but now customers have more control over their resources. For storage and data analytics workloads, customers can use IBC to increase their VPC bandwidth allocation for improved performance replicating data or reading and writing data from services like Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). For database workloads backing up data to EBS, customers can use IBC to increase their bandwidth allocation to improve querying and logging performance.

IBC is available starting with C8g, M8g, R8g, and X8g platforms. It is available in all AWS commercial regions and it comes at no additional cost. To get started and learn more, please see our EC2 user guide.

 

​AWS announces the general availability of Instance Bandwidth Configurations (IBC) for 8th generation, Graviton based instances. With IBC, customers can adjust the VPC and EBS service bandwidth, by up to 25%, on their EC2 instances. When increasing the bandwidth for one of the service, say VPC, the available bandwidth for the other service, EBS, is reduced. IBC does not increase your instances burst bandwidth, packets per second, or IOPS capabilities. With IBC, AWS is providing customers greater flexibility with the allocation of their bandwidth resources to better optimize their workloads. Before today, EC2 instances were predefined with static bandwidth specifications, but now customers have more control over their resources. For storage and data analytics workloads, customers can use IBC to increase their VPC bandwidth allocation for improved performance replicating data or reading and writing data from services like Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). For database workloads backing up data to EBS, customers can use IBC to increase their bandwidth allocation to improve querying and logging performance. IBC is available starting with C8g, M8g, R8g, and X8g platforms. It is available in all AWS commercial regions and it comes at no additional cost. To get started and learn more, please see our EC2 user guide.  

AWS Elemental MediaConnect Gateway now supports source-specific multicast (SSM). This new feature allows you to specify both a multicast group address and an optional source IP address when creating or updating MediaConnect Gateway bridge sources, offering greater flexibility, security, and efficiency in your workflows.

SSM support enhances control by allowing you to pull content from specific senders and filter unwanted traffic. It enables more efficient bandwidth use as network switches replicate data only when needed. Additionally, SSM improves security as content is only received from trusted sources via specified IP addresses.

To learn more about enabling SSM for MediaConnect Gateway, visit the AWS Elemental MediaConnect Gateway documentation page.

AWS Elemental MediaConnect is a reliable, secure, and flexible transport service for live video that enables broadcasters and content owners to build live video workflows and securely share live content with partners and customers. MediaConnect helps customers transport high-value live video streams into, through, and out of the AWS Cloud. MediaConnect can function as a standalone service or as part of a larger video workflow with other AWS Elemental Media Services, a family of services that form the foundation of cloud-based workflows to transport, transcode, package, and deliver video.

Visit the AWS Region Table for a full list of AWS Regions where MediaConnect is available. To learn more about MediaConnect, please visit here.

 

​AWS Elemental MediaConnect Gateway now supports source-specific multicast (SSM). This new feature allows you to specify both a multicast group address and an optional source IP address when creating or updating MediaConnect Gateway bridge sources, offering greater flexibility, security, and efficiency in your workflows. SSM support enhances control by allowing you to pull content from specific senders and filter unwanted traffic. It enables more efficient bandwidth use as network switches replicate data only when needed. Additionally, SSM improves security as content is only received from trusted sources via specified IP addresses. To learn more about enabling SSM for MediaConnect Gateway, visit the AWS Elemental MediaConnect Gateway documentation page. AWS Elemental MediaConnect is a reliable, secure, and flexible transport service for live video that enables broadcasters and content owners to build live video workflows and securely share live content with partners and customers. MediaConnect helps customers transport high-value live video streams into, through, and out of the AWS Cloud. MediaConnect can function as a standalone service or as part of a larger video workflow with other AWS Elemental Media Services, a family of services that form the foundation of cloud-based workflows to transport, transcode, package, and deliver video. Visit the AWS Region Table for a full list of AWS Regions where MediaConnect is available. To learn more about MediaConnect, please visit here.  

AWS Resource Explorer now supports 59 more resource types across all AWS commercial Regions from services including Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), Amazon Kendra, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer, and Amazon SageMaker.

With this release, customers can now search for the following resource types in AWS Resource Explorer:
 

access-analyzer:analyzer airflow:environment amplify:apps/branches amplify:apps/domains appflow:flow appmesh:mesh appmesh:mesh/virtualNode appmesh:mesh/virtualService apprunner:service appstream:image-builder auditmanager:assessment backup:backup-vault codeguru-reviewer:association connect:instance connect:instance/transfer-destination connect:instance/agent databrew:schedule datasync:location datasync:task dms:endpoint dms:rep dms:task ecs:capacity-provider eks:cluster finspace:environment gamelift:build gamelift:gamesessionqueue gamelift:matchmakingconfiguration gamelift:matchmakingruleset glue:mlTransform

groundstation:config guardduty:detector/filter guardduty:detector/ipset guardduty:detector/threatintelset healthlake:datastore/fhir iotsitewise:dashboard iotwireless:ServiceProfile ivs:recording-configuration kendra:index memorydb:acl memorydb:subnetgroup network-firewall:firewall networkmanager:attachment mobiletargeting:apps/campaigns mobiletargeting:apps/segments proton:environment-account-connection quicksight:dataset quicksight:datasource quicksight:template ram:resource-share route53resolver:resolver-query-log-config sagemaker:domain sagemaker:endpoint sagemaker:feature-group sagemaker:image sagemaker:pipeline signer:signing-profiles transfer:workflow workspaces:workspace

To view a complete list of all supported types, see the supported resource types page.

 

​AWS Resource Explorer now supports 59 more resource types across all AWS commercial Regions from services including Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), Amazon Kendra, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer, and Amazon SageMaker. With this release, customers can now search for the following resource types in AWS Resource Explorer:  

access-analyzer:analyzer
airflow:environment
amplify:apps/branches
amplify:apps/domains
appflow:flow
appmesh:mesh
appmesh:mesh/virtualNode
appmesh:mesh/virtualService
apprunner:service
appstream:image-builder
auditmanager:assessment
backup:backup-vault
codeguru-reviewer:association
connect:instance
connect:instance/transfer-destination
connect:instance/agent
databrew:schedule
datasync:location
datasync:task
dms:endpoint
dms:rep
dms:task
ecs:capacity-provider
eks:cluster
finspace:environment
gamelift:build
gamelift:gamesessionqueue
gamelift:matchmakingconfiguration
gamelift:matchmakingruleset
glue:mlTransform

groundstation:config
guardduty:detector/filter
guardduty:detector/ipset
guardduty:detector/threatintelset
healthlake:datastore/fhir
iotsitewise:dashboard
iotwireless:ServiceProfile
ivs:recording-configuration
kendra:index
memorydb:acl
memorydb:subnetgroup
network-firewall:firewall
networkmanager:attachment
mobiletargeting:apps/campaigns
mobiletargeting:apps/segments
proton:environment-account-connection
quicksight:dataset
quicksight:datasource
quicksight:template
ram:resource-share
route53resolver:resolver-query-log-config
sagemaker:domain
sagemaker:endpoint
sagemaker:feature-group
sagemaker:image
sagemaker:pipeline
signer:signing-profiles
transfer:workflow
workspaces:workspace

To view a complete list of all supported types, see the supported resource types page.  

AWS Cloud Map now supports service-level attributes, enabling you to store and access information directly at the service level. With AWS Cloud Map, you can define custom names for your application resources, such as Amazon Elastic Container Services (Amazon ECS) tasks, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, Amazon DynamoDB tables, or other cloud resources. You can then use these custom names to discover the location of cloud resources from your applications using AWS SDK and authenticated API queries. With service-level attributes, your applications can store and retrieve important service-level information, such as traffic weights during deployments, through a simple API call to AWS Cloud Map. AWS Cloud Map service is a logical group of instances, enabling you to find and connect to resources.

With AWS Cloud Map support for service-level attributes, you can now register key value attributes directly at service level, which were previously stored at the instance level or retrieved through ad-hoc channels like static config files. This feature allows you to discover resources using service-level attributes for various use cases, such as complex traffic routing, setting timeout and retry values, and coordination between services and external integrations. This capability helps you avoid duplicating service level information across instances, simplifying retrieval, updates, and deletion without requiring changes to individual instances.

To learn more, please refer to the AWS Cloud Map documentation. To see all of the Regions where AWS Cloud Map is available, see the AWS Region table.

 

​AWS Cloud Map now supports service-level attributes, enabling you to store and access information directly at the service level. With AWS Cloud Map, you can define custom names for your application resources, such as Amazon Elastic Container Services (Amazon ECS) tasks, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, Amazon DynamoDB tables, or other cloud resources. You can then use these custom names to discover the location of cloud resources from your applications using AWS SDK and authenticated API queries. With service-level attributes, your applications can store and retrieve important service-level information, such as traffic weights during deployments, through a simple API call to AWS Cloud Map. AWS Cloud Map service is a logical group of instances, enabling you to find and connect to resources. With AWS Cloud Map support for service-level attributes, you can now register key value attributes directly at service level, which were previously stored at the instance level or retrieved through ad-hoc channels like static config files. This feature allows you to discover resources using service-level attributes for various use cases, such as complex traffic routing, setting timeout and retry values, and coordination between services and external integrations. This capability helps you avoid duplicating service level information across instances, simplifying retrieval, updates, and deletion without requiring changes to individual instances. To learn more, please refer to the AWS Cloud Map documentation. To see all of the Regions where AWS Cloud Map is available, see the AWS Region table.  

Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the Telehouse OS2 data center in Osaka, Japan. By connecting your network to AWS at the new Osaka location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones. This is the second AWS Direct Connect site within the Osaka Metropolitan area and the fifth site in Japan.

The Direct Connect service enables you to establish a private, physical network connection between AWS and your data center, office, or colocation environment. These private connections can provide a more consistent network experience than those made over the public internet. The new Direct Connect location at Telehouse OS2 offers dedicated 1G, 10 Gbps and 100 Gbps connections with MACsec encryption available.

For more information on the over 145 Direct Connect locations worldwide, visit the locations section of the Direct Connect product detail pages. Or, visit our getting started page to learn more about how to purchase and deploy Direct Connect.

 

​Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the Telehouse OS2 data center in Osaka, Japan. By connecting your network to AWS at the new Osaka location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones. This is the second AWS Direct Connect site within the Osaka Metropolitan area and the fifth site in Japan. The Direct Connect service enables you to establish a private, physical network connection between AWS and your data center, office, or colocation environment. These private connections can provide a more consistent network experience than those made over the public internet. The new Direct Connect location at Telehouse OS2 offers dedicated 1G, 10 Gbps and 100 Gbps connections with MACsec encryption available. For more information on the over 145 Direct Connect locations worldwide, visit the locations section of the Direct Connect product detail pages. Or, visit our getting started page to learn more about how to purchase and deploy Direct Connect.