12/6/2022, 12:00:00 AM ~ 12/7/2022, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

Amazon Neptune Workbench is now available in Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), and Middle East (Bahrain) regions

Amazon Neptune Workbench is now available in  Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), and Middle East (Bahrain) regions. Starting today, you can use the Neptune Workbench to create Neptune notebook instances in these regions for visualizing graph data in Neptune, accessing tutorials, and running code samples using an interactive coding environment.

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP announces four new ease-of-use features

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, a service that provides fully managed shared storage built on NetApp’s popular ONTAP file system, today announced four new features that make it even easier to configure and manage your file systems.

AWS Snow Family Large Data Migration Manager is now available in additional Regions

AWS Snow Family Large Data Migration Manager (LDMM) is now available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Europe (Milan) and Africa (Cape Town) Regions. Snow Large Data Migration Manager enables you to plan, track, and manage your large data migrations when using multiple Snowball Edge devices. You can now easily plan and monitor your jobs from a minimum of 500 Terabytes to Petabytes scale data migrations.

AWS CloudShell is now System and Organization Controls (SOC) compliant

AWS CloudShell is now a System and Organization Controls (SOC) compliant service. You can now use AWS CloudShell for workloads that are subject to SOC compliance. AWS SOC reports are independent third-party examination reports that demonstrate how AWS achieves key compliance controls and objectives. The purpose of these reports is to help you and your auditors understand the AWS controls established to support operations and compliance.

AWS IoT Device Defender Audit feature now identifies potential misconfiguration in IoT Policies

Today, AWS IoT Device Defender launched  a new audit check AWS IoT policy potentially misconfigured to identify certain potential misconfigurations in IoT policies. Security misconfigurations such as overly permissive policies can be a major cause of security incidents. With this new audit check in AWS IoT Device Defender, you can now more easily identify flaws, troubleshoot issues, and take the necessary corrective actions.

Amazon Lex launches support for Arabic, Cantonese, Norwegian, Swedish, Polish, and Finnish

We are excited to announce that Amazon Lex now supports Arabic, Cantonese, Norwegian, Swedish, Polish, and Finnish. Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. Amazon Lex provides deep learning powered automatic speech recognition (ASR) for converting speech to text, and natural language understanding (NLU) to recognize the intent of the text, to enable you to build applications with highly engaging user experiences and lifelike conversational interactions. With these new languages, you can build and expand your conversational experiences to better understand and engage your customer base.

Amazon Location Service is now HITRUST CSF certified

Amazon Location Service is now Health Information Trust Alliance Common Security Framework (HITRUST CSF) certified, aligning with customer requirements for security and privacy. Customers can use Amazon Location Service as part of their AWS environment to help them meet the requirements of the HITRUST CSF. In addition to HITRUST CSF, Amazon Location Service is compliant with SOC, PCI, ISO, HIPAA, and OSPAR.

AWS Glue sensitive data detection is available in 18 additional AWS Regions

Sensitive data detection and processing in AWS Glue is now generally available in 18 additional AWS Regions: US West (Northern California), Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Milan), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm), Middle East (Bahrain), and South America (Sao Paulo).

VMware Cloud on AWS is now available in Africa (Cape Town)

We’re excited to announce the launch of VMware Cloud on AWS in the AWS Cape Town region. This launch marks the 22nd AWS region to support VMware Cloud on AWS and provides customers running VMware-based workloads a faster and more seamless path to migrate to the cloud.

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP extends NVMe read cache support to Single-AZ file systems

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is extending the NVMe read cache support that is already included with Multi-AZ file systems to Single-AZ file systems. With the read cache, you can drive up to 650,000 IOPS and 6 GB/s of read throughput when reading your frequently-accessed data.

Amazon FSx receives DoD Impact Level 4 and 5 authorization

Amazon FSx, a fully managed service that makes it easy to launch and run feature-rich and highly-performant file systems, is now authorized for Department of Defense Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide Impact Levels 4 and 5 (DoD SRG IL4 and IL5) in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Today’s launch builds on Amazon FSx’s existing DoD SRG IL2 authorization in AWS US Regions, FedRAMP Moderate authorization in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), and US West (Oregon), and FedRAMP High authorization in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

AWS IAM Identity Center achieves FedRAMP High authorization in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS Single Sign-On) has achieved FedRAMP High authorization in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. You can now use AWS IAM Identity Center to centrally manage workforce access to workloads that require FedRAMP High categorization level.

NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB now supports creating data models directly from sample data model templates

NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB now supports creating data models directly from sample data model templates to help you design data schemas for your workloads. You can use this feature to get familiar with NoSQL data modeling best practices when building your applications on DynamoDB.

NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB now includes DynamoDB Local

NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB now includes a guided DynamoDB Local installation process to streamline setting up your DynamoDB local development environment. You can use this new feature to build, test, and deploy workloads on DynamoDB more quickly.

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