New functions for AWS in January 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) regularly receives enhancements with new apps and better functions for already integrated apps. The functions that AWS received in January 2024 include the integration of AWS Step Functions for over 30 services and the ability to resell professional services from third-party providers.

Step Functions receives integration for 33 services in AWS in January 2024

With AWS Step Functions, over 220 services can be orchestrated to create distributed applications. This reduces the amount of code required to create applications. This saves time and money. At the same time, it allows applications to be connected to multiple services, thus creating a unified system.

Further services are added to the integration at irregular intervals. In January 2024, AWS has now added 33 more services that support Step Functions. In addition, there are over 1,500 new actions in application programming interfaces (APIs) for already integrated services.

The newly integrated services are as follows:

- Amazon Bedrock

- Amazon Bedrock Agents

- Amazon Bedrock Runtime

- Amazon Bedrock Runtime Agents

- Amazon CloudFront KeyValueStore

- Amazon DataZone

- Amazon EKS Auth

- Amazon Inspector Scan

- Amazon Managed Blockchain Query

- Amazon Q Business

- Amazon Q Connect

- Amazon Timestream Query

- Amazon Timestream Write

- Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client

- AWS AppFabric

- AWS Clean Rooms

- AWS Cost Optimization Hub

- AWS Data Exports

- AWS Elemental MediaPackage V2

- AWS Entity Resolution

- AWS Free Tier

- AWS HealthImaging

- AWS Launch Wizard

- AWS Payment Cryptography

- AWS Payment Cryptography Data

- AWS Private CA Connector for Active Directory

- AWS re:Post

- B2B Data Interchange

- CodeGuru Security

- Neptune Data

- Network Manager

- Trusted Advisor

- Verified Permissions

Resale of Professional Services in the AWS Marketplace

Independent software providers and sales partners or consulting partners on AWS now have the opportunity to sell professional services from third-party providers in the AWS Marketplace. The prerequisite is that the services belong to one of these categories:

- Reviews

- Implementation

- Managed Services

- Premium support

- Training courses

The third-party providers can authorize other Marketplace sellers to offer services from these categories for sale. This means that sellers can now also offer additional services in addition to software. Sellers can use the resale authorization to adjust prices, terms and legal conditions.

This new function for the AWS Marketplace in January 2024 is intended to make it easier for customers to access services. They can contact trusted vendors they already know directly and get software and service from a single source.

Cross-region backups in Amazon RDS for Db2 in AWS in January 2024

Amazon RDS for Db2 is a quick and easy way to set up databases in the cloud. Many international companies use these cloud databases across regions. This is why AWS added a new function in January 2024 that allows backups of the cloud database in Amazon RDS for Db2 to be transferred to multiple regions.

This offers customers more security when using the database. If the database is not available in the primary region, users can access the secondary regions.

Storage and data transfer are associated with additional costs. The prices depend on the size of the database and the data transfer.

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