8/2/2022, 12:00:00 AM ~ 8/3/2022, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

AWS Amplify Flutter announces web and desktop support (Developer Preview) for Authentication

AWS Amplify is announcing a developer preview to expand Flutter support to web and desktop, starting with the Authentication category. With this release, developers can use Amplify to create new Flutter apps that support web and desktop in addition to mobile platforms. Developers can also extend existing mobile Amplify Flutter projects to support web and desktop.

Announcing Amazon Pinpoint toll-free number registration workflow

Today we added features to the AWS console to help users register their toll-free numbers. In an effort to curb spam SMS and calling, United States toll-free numbers now must be registered with carriers. A new workflow will now enable Amazon Pinpoint users to submit a toll-free number registration directly from the AWS console in a few easy steps.

AWS Training and Certification announces AWS Skill Builder subscriptions

AWS Training and Certification announces AWS Skill Builder subscriptions to help learners and organizations advance cloud skills with exclusive, self-paced, digital training. According to the Global Knowledge IT Skills and Salary Report, 76% of IT decision-makers report an IT skills gap, up from 31% in 2016. Gartner predicts global public cloud spending will grow 22% in 2022, from $396 billion to $482 billion. This demand creates cloud career opportunities for learners, and AWS Training and Certification can support their journey. To help close the IT skills gap, we have expanded our Skill Builder free offering of 500+ self-paced training courses to also offer Individual and Team subscriptions that provide hands-on, real-world learning content, created by AWS experts.

Build AWS Config rules using AWS CloudFormation Guard

AWS Config now supports an easier way to author custom AWS Config rules using AWS CloudFormation Guard (cfn-guard). With this release, users with limited programming experience can use Guard to define and review custom policies that check your resources have desired configurations. AWS Config rules are a way of creating and implementing compliance policies against resource configurations. Currently, AWS Config offers both managed rules, which AWS builds and maintains to meet common compliance use cases, and custom rules, which users create to meet their specific compliance needs. Guard is an open source tool offering policy-as-code, such that users can define policies to validate JSON- or YAML-formatted data using a domain-specific language (DSL).

AWS Microservice Extractor for .NET now provides automated refactoring recommendations

AWS Microservice Extractor for .NET simplifies the process of refactoring older monolithic applications into smaller code projects to build a microservices-based architecture. Modernize and transform your applications with an assistive tool that analyzes source code and runtime metrics to create a visual representation of your application and its dependencies. With Microservice Extractor providing automated recommendations, developers get guided experience to refactor legacy applications. Instead of the developer needing to identify and group classes in source code manually for extraction, Microservice Extractor now identifies common extraction candidates using heuristics-based techniques, and highlights those in visualization. These recommendations can be used as is or used as a starting point to extract microservices off of monolithic codebase. Thus, automated recommendations from Microservice Extractor helps to speed up refactoring large applications even if the developer is unfamiliar with the codebase.

Announcing the availability of license included Microsoft Visual Studio Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) on Amazon EC2

AWS now offers fully-compliant, Amazon-provided licenses for Microsoft Visual Studio Enterprise 2022 and Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2022 Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). These AMIs are now available on the Amazon EC2 console and on AWS Marketplace, to launch instances on-demand without any long-term licensing commitments. Amazon EC2 provides a broach choice of instances and you not only have the flexibility of paying for what your end users use, you can also provide the capacity and right hardware to your end-users. For enterprises that employ large teams of contractors, you can easily provision standardized development machines managed by your IT with no compromises on security and compliance.

Now in Preview - Amazon WorkSpaces Integration with SAML 2.0

We are happy to announce the preview of Amazon WorkSpaces integration with SAML 2.0. WorkSpaces is a fully managed desktop virtualization service for Windows and Linux that enables you to access resources from any supported device. As an administrator, you can now enable SAML 2.0 authentication on your WorkSpaces directory to control end user access to desktops by using your SAML 2.0 identity provider (IdP).

AWS Secrets Manager connections now support the latest hybrid post-quantum TLS with Kyber

Connections to AWS Secrets Manager now support hybrid post-quantum key establishment using Kyber for transport layer security (TLS) from Round 3 of the NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) selection process. This allows you to measure the potential performance impact of the post-quantum algorithm. You can also benefit from the longer-term confidentiality afforded by hybrid post-quantum TLS.

Amazon Connect schedule adherence, now available in preview.

Amazon Connect now includes the ability to report on agent schedule adherence, adding to the existing forecasting, capacity planning, and scheduling capabilities already in preview. With schedule adherence, you can measure how closely agents follow their planned schedule, providing insights that help you take action to improve agent productivity and customer satisfaction. For example, if agents were busier than expected, supervisors can use Amazon Connect schedule adherence to identify agents who forgot to take their breaks and remind them do so in the future to maintain performance and avoid burn out.

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports April 2022 patch set update (PSU) for 12.1 and release updates (RU) for 19c & 21c

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the April 2022 Patch Set Update (PSU) for Oracle Database 12.1 and Release Updates (RU) for Oracle Database 19c and 21c.

AWS Security Hub now supports cross-Region aggregation of findings in AWS GovCloud (US)

AWS Security Hub now allows you to designate an aggregation Region in AWS GovCloud (US) and link some or all regions to that aggregation region. This gives you a centralized view of all your security findings across your accounts and linked regions. After you link a region to the aggregation region, your findings are continuously synchronized between the regions. Any update to a finding in a linked region is replicated to the aggregation region, and any update to a finding in the aggregation region is replicated to the linked region where the finding originated.

VM Import/Export now supports Windows 11

VM Import/Export now supports migration of virtual machines that use Windows 11 operating system on AWS and launch instances using the imported images on EC2 Dedicated Hosts, and EC2 Dedicated Instances.

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