5/31/2022, 12:00:00 AM ~ 6/1/2022, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
Amazon Connect now supports high-volume outbound communications in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) AWS region, making it easy to contact from hundreds to millions of customers daily for communications like delivery notifications, marketing promotions, appointment reminders, or debt collection. Amazon Connect’s high-volume outbound communications for calls, text and emails gives organizations a simple, embedded, cost-effective way to proactively contact customers without having to integrate third-party tools. An optional integrated list management capability provided by Amazon Pinpoint can also be used to build customer journeys and multi-channel user experiences. With this launch, high-volume outbound calls can now be made to customers in Australia and New Zealand. This feature is available out-of-the box and can be enabled within the AWS Console.
AWS IAM now supports WebAuthn and Safari browser for multi-factor authentication with security keys
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) now supports the Web Authentication (WebAuthn) standard for strong and phishing-resistant authentication across all supported browsers. WebAuthn is part of the FIDO2 set of specifications that succeed FIDO U2F API, enabling secure multi-factor authentication with security keys based on public key cryptography.
AWS DataSync adds support for Amazon EFS security features
AWS DataSync now provides additional security options when moving data to and from Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS). AWS DataSync is an online data movement service that simplifies, automates, and accelerates moving data between on-premises, edge, or cloud storage and AWS Storage services. Amazon EFS is a serverless, fully elastic file system that makes it easy to set up, scale, and cost-optimize file storage in the AWS Cloud. With this launch, DataSync can now access your file systems using EFS Access Points, enabling you to copy data to and from specific datasets. You can also configure DataSync to connect to your EFS file systems using TLS encryption, giving you greater protection of your data in-flight when copying to and from EFS. Additionally, you can configure DataSync with an IAM role for use with your EFS file system policies, giving you greater control over how DataSync accesses your file systems.
AWS Resource Access Manager achieves ISO and SOC compliance
AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM) can now be used for workloads subject to Service Organization Control (SOC) compliance and International Organization for Standardization (ISO) ISO 9001, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018 and ISO 27701 standards. Now, customers in finance, healthcare, and other regulated sectors can get insights into the security processes and controls that protect customer data which can be found in the SOC reports, AWS ISO and CSA STAR certificates in AWS Artifact. AWS’ alignment with these standards in addition to the independent third-party assessment of these internationally recognized code of practices demonstrates AWS’ commitment to the privacy and protection of customers’ content.
AWS announces support for Dart Signature V4 for interacting with AWS services
The new Dart Signature V4 client allows developers to securely integrate with all 200+ AWS services using signed HTTP requests. This functionality enables Dart developers to make native calls to AWS backends in their Flutter or Dart applications, to make changes to the data or configurations of AWS services.
Single account enrollment and update is now available in AWS Control Tower
AWS Control Tower now gives you the capability to enroll and update member accounts individually, from within your AWS Control Tower landing zone, with a single click. You can update your landing zone, remediate account drift, or enroll an account into a registered organizational unit (OU), in a few streamlined steps.
Amazon Connect now lets you get started with high-volume outbound communications with just a few clicks, enabling you to begin testing this feature. On the Amazon Connect navigation panel, choose the Telephony page, check the box to Enable high-volume outbound communication, and then choose Save. In a few minutes you will be ready to use this feature. Use high-volume outbound communications for calls, texts, and emails to contact from hundreds to millions of customers daily for communications like upcoming delivery notifications, marketing promotions, appointment reminders, and debt collection without having to integrate third-party tools. An optional integrated list management capability provided by Amazon Pinpoint can also be used to build customer journeys and multi-channel user experiences. This feature is available out-of-the box and can be enabled within the AWS Connect Console.
AWS Marketplace introduces free trials for SaaS contracts
AWS Marketplace introduces free trials for SaaS contracts so you can try products before you buy them. Previously, customers would either need to commit to a contract before trying the product, or go to third-party websites for free trials offered by software vendors directly.
Announcing Athena connector for Amazon Lookout for Metrics
AWS Lookout for Metrics announces the launch of the Athena connector, a new connector in Lookout for Metrics that allows you to query data from various data sources such as Data Lake on AWS, Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift to ingest into Amazon Lookout for Metrics for anomaly detection. The Athena connector reduces the need to setup complex ETL jobs and data preparation time for anomaly detection. You can query large datasets using standard SQL and analyze it before ingesting in an anomaly detector. The Athena connector supports data formatted in CSV, JSON, ORC (Optimized Row Columnar), Parquet, XML, plain text and AVRO.
AWS AppSync simplifies GraphQL API development with expanded GraphQL Utility Helper Library
AWS AppSync is a fully managed service that makes it easy to create and manage GraphQL and Real-time APIs, allowing developers to securely access, manipulate, and combine data from one or more data sources via a single API endpoint. With GraphQL, special functions called Resolvers are used to implement business logic linking or “resolving” types, fields, or operations defined in the GraphQL schema with the data in data sources such as Amazon DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, HTTP APIs, and more.
Access the AWS re:Post community from the AWS Well-Architected Tool
AWS Well-Architected Tool now features direct access to AWS re:Post, a community-driven, questions-and-answers service designed to help AWS customers remove technical roadblocks, accelerate innovation, and enhance operation. AWS re:Post has 40+ topics including a community specific to AWS Well-Architected.
Amazon Timestream achieves FedRAMP Moderate compliance
Amazon Timestream is now in scope for FedRAMP Moderate in the following AWS Regions: US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon). You can now use Amazon Timestream to collect, store, query, and visualize time series data in various applications within your Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPC) to help you meet FedRAMP Moderate controls.
Amazon Cognito improves risk evaluation for Advanced Security Features
Amazon Cognito now enables application developers to propagate IP address as part of the caller context data in unauthenticated calls to Amazon Cognito. When Amazon Cognito’s Advanced Security Features (ASF) are enabled, this feature improves risk calculation and resulting authentication decisions performed in flows such as sign-up, account confirmation, and password change. Prior to this change, the end user IP address was not available in unauthenticated calls if these calls were initiated behind a proxy. With this new feature, developers who build identity micro-services, authentication modules or identity proxies can now leverage APIs to gain visibility into the client’s IP address and utilize them in other security applications to better understand the risk of a particular user activity.
Amazon EBS now supports Elastic Volumes and Fast Snapshot Restore (FSR) for io2 Block Express
You can now use Elastic Volumes to dynamically increase the capacity and tune the performance of your io2 Block Express volumes with no downtime or performance impact, in the same manner as other EBS volumes. Additionally, you can now create a fully initialized io2 Block Express volume from a Fast Snapshot Restore (FSR) enabled snapshot. Volumes that are created from FSR-enabled snapshots instantly deliver their provisioned performance. These features add to the capabilities of the highest-performance EBS volume type - io2 Block Express.
AWS WAF and AWS Shield Advanced are now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
AWS WAF and AWS Shield Advanced are now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region.
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