Tag: SysAdmin

CloudWatch RUM, which captures real-time data on web application performance and user interactions, helping you quickly detect and resolve issues impacting the user experience, now supports percentile aggregation of web vital metrics and simplified events based troubleshooting directly from the web vitals anomaly. Google uses the 75th percentile (p75) of a web page’s Core Web Vitals—Largest Contentful Paint, First Input Delay, and Cumulative Layout Shift—to influence page ranking. With CloudWatch RUM, you can now monitor these p75 values of web page vitals and ensure that majority of your visitors experience optimal performance, minimizing the impact of outliers. You can also click on any point in the Web Vitals graph to view correlated page events, allowing you to quickly dive into event details such as browser, device, and geolocation to identify specific conditions causing performance issues. Additionally, you can track affected users and sessions for in-depth anal

Amazon OpenSearch's vector engine can now run modern search applications at a third of the cost on OpenSearch 2.17 domains. When you configure a k-NN (vector) index for disk mode, it becomes optimized for operating in a low memory environment. With disk mode on, the index is compressed using techniques like binary quantization and search quality (recall) is retained through a disk-optimized rescoring mechanism using full-precision vectors. Disk-mode is an excellent option for vector search workloads that require high accuracy, cost efficiency and are satisfied by low hundreds-of-milliseconds latency. It provides customers with a lower cost alternative to the existing in-memory mode when single-digit latency is unnecessary. To learn more, refer to the documentation.

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is a scalable, serverless, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra-compatible database service that offers 99.999% availability. Today, Amazon Keyspaces added the capability to add Regions to existing Keyspaces. With this launch, you can convert an existing single-Region Keyspace to a multi-Region Keyspace or add a new Region to an existing multi-Region Keyspace without recreating the existing Keyspaces. As your application traffic and business needs evolve over time, you can easily add new Regions closest to your application to achieve lower read and write latencies. You can also improve the availability and resiliency of your workloads by adding Regions. Keyspaces fully manages all aspects of creating a new Region and populating it with the latest data from other Regions, enabling you to focus your resources on adding value for your customers rather than ma

AWS Glue announces 19 new connectors for Enterprise applications to expand its connectivity portfolio. Now, customers can use AWS Glue native connectors to ingest data from Facebook Ads, Google Ads, Google Analytics 4, Google Sheets, Hubspot, Instagram Ads, Intercom, Jira Cloud, Marketo, Oracle NetSuite, SAP OData, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement, ServiceNow, Slack, Snapchat Ads, Stripe, Zendesk and Zoho CRM. As enterprises increasingly rely on data-driven decisions, they are looking for services making it easier to integrate with data from various Enterprise applications. With these 19 new connectors, customers can easily establish a connection to their Enterprise applications using AWS console or AWS Glue APIs without the need to learn application specific APIs. These connectors are scalable and performant with AWS Glue Spark engine and support for standard authorization a

Today, AWS AppSync announced support for logging GraphQL data plane operations (query, mutation, and subscription operations and connect requests to your real-time WebSocket endpoint) using AWS CloudTrail, enabling customers to have greater visibility into GraphQL API activity in their AWS account for best practices in security and operational troubleshooting. AWS AppSync GraphQL is a serverless GraphQL service that gives application developers the ability to access data from multiple databases, micro-services, and AI models with a single GraphQL API request. CloudTrail captures API activities related to AWS AppSync GraphQL APIs as events, including calls from the AWS console and calls made programmatically to the AWS AppSync GraphQL API endpoints. Using the information that CloudTrail collects, you can identify a specific request to an AWS AppSync GraphQL API, the IP address of the requester, the reque

Amazon Titan Text Embeddings V2 now supports Binary Embeddings. With Binary Embeddings, customers can reduce the storage cost for their Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) applications while maintaining similar accuracy of regular embeddings. Amazon Titan Text Embeddings model generates semantic representations of documents, paragraphs, and sentences, as 1,024 (default), 512, or 256 dimensional vector. With Binary Embeddings, Titan Text Embeddings V2 will represent data as binary vectors with each dimension encoded as a single binary digit (0 or 1). This binary representation converts high-dimensional data into a more efficient format for storage in Amazon OpenSearch Serverless in Bedrock Knowledge Bases for cost-effective RAG applications. Binary Embeddings is supported in Titan Text Embeddings V2, Amazon OpenSearch Serverless and Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases in all regions where

Amazon OpenSearch Serverless has added support for Point in Time (PIT) search, enabling you to run multiple queries against a dataset fixed at a specific moment. This feature allows you to maintain consistent search results even as your data continues to change, making it particularly useful for applications that require deep pagination or need to preserve a stable view of data across multiple queries. Point in time search supports both forward and backward navigation through search results, ensuring consistency even during ongoing data ingestion. This feature is ideal for e-commerce applications, content management systems, and analytics platforms that require reliable and consistent search capabilities across large datasets. Point in time search on Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is now available in 15 regions globally: US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt),

Amazon OpenSearch Service now enables you to scale a single cluster to 1000 data nodes (1000 hot nodes and/or 750 warm nodes) and enables you to manage 25 petabytes of data (10 Petabytes in hot nodes and further 15 Petabytes in warm nodes). You no longer need to setup multiple clusters for workloads that require more than 200 data nodes or more than 3 Petabytes of data. Today, for workloads of more than 3 to 4 petabytes of data, you need to create multiple clusters in OpenSearch Service. This may have required you to refactor your applications or business logic to work with your workload split across multiple clusters. In addition, every cluster requires its own configuration, management, and monitoring, adding to the operational overhead. With this launch, you can scale a single cluster up to 1000 nodes, or 25 petabytes of data, removing the operational overhead that comes with managing multiple clusters. To scale a cluster beyond 200 nodes, you have to request an

Amazon EKS enhances visibility into the Kubernetes control plane by offering new intuitive dashboards in EKS console and providing a broader set of Kubernetes control plane metrics. This enables cluster administrators to quickly detect, troubleshoot, and remediate issues. All EKS clusters on Kubernetes version 1.28 and above will now automatically display a curated set of dashboards visualizing key control plane metrics within the EKS console, making it easy to observe the health and performance of the control plane. Additionally, a broader set of control plane metrics are made available in Amazon CloudWatch and in a Prometheus endpoint, providing customers with the flexibility to utilize their preferred monitoring solution — be it Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, or third-party monitoring tools. Newly introduced pre-configured dashboards in the EKS console provide cluster administrators with visual representations of key control plane metrics, en

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now allows you to configure software version consistency for specific containers within your Amazon ECS services. By default, Amazon ECS resolves container image tags to the image digest (SHA256 hash of the image manifest) when you create a new Amazon ECS service or deploy an update to the service. This enforces that all tasks in the service are identical and launched with this image digest(s). However, for certain containers within the task (e.g. telemetry sidecars provided by a 3rd party) customers may prefer to not enforce consistency and intead use a mutable container image tag (e.g. LATEST). Now, you can disable software version consistency for one or more containers in your ECS service by configuring the new versionConsistency attribute in the container definition. ECS applies changes to version consistency when you redeploy your ECS service with the task definition r