12/22/2022, 12:00:00 AM ~ 12/23/2022, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

AWS Organizations console adds support to centrally manage region opt-in settings on AWS accounts

Today, we are enhancing the AWS Organizations console to enable you to centrally view and update the region opt-in settings for your AWS accounts. With this launch, you can now use the console to easily perform these operations without logging into each account separately. We already launched Organizations console support for alternate contacts and primary contact information, and support for additional account settings will be available in future releases.

AWS Cloud Map is now available in Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich) and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) AWS Regions

AWS Cloud Map is now available in Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich) and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) AWS Regions. AWS Cloud Map is a cloud resource discovery service. With AWS Cloud Map, you can define custom names for your application resources, such as Amazon Elastic Container Services (Amazon ECS) tasks, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, Amazon DynamoDB tables, or other cloud resources. You can then use these custom names to discover the location and metadata of cloud resources from your applications using AWS SDK and authenticated API queries.

AWS License Manager now supports commercial Linux subscriptions discovery and governance

AWS License Manager announces support for cross-region, cross-account tracking of commercial Linux subscriptions you run on AWS. This includes subscriptions purchased as part of EC2 subscription-included AMIs, on the AWS Marketplace, or brought to AWS via Red Hat Cloud Access Program. You can track subscription usage by number of instances for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, and Ubuntu Pro distributions in the Linux subscriptions tab of the AWS License Manager console.

AWS Security Hub launches 9 new security best practice controls

AWS Security Hub has released 9 new controls for its AWS Foundational Security Best Practice standard (FSBP) to enhance your cloud security posture management (CSPM).These controls conduct fully-automatic checks against security best practices for your AWS account settings and for services such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon SageMaker, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon CloudFront, AWS WAF, and AWS CodeBuild. If you have Security Hub set to automatically enable new controls and are already using AWS Foundational Security Best Practices, these new controls will run without having to take any additional action.

Amazon RDS now supports renaming Multi-AZ deployments with two readable standbys

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now supports renaming Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployments with two readable standbys. The ability to rename the RDS Multi-AZ deployments with two readable standbys helps you to replace a deployment without having to change any application code that references the deployment by name such as the connection endpoint. Renaming is used when you restore data from a DB snapshot, or when you do a point-in-time recovery (PITR).

ROSA now provides an AWS Management Console experience for satisfying ROSA prerequisites

Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) now provides an AWS Management Console experience that simplifies the process for satisfying the AWS account prerequisites for provisioning and operating ROSA clusters. The new AWS ROSA console page automatically checks whether ROSA prerequisites are met and provides automated configuration and step-by-step guidance where manual configuration is required.

AWS Network Firewall is now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region

Starting today, we are launching the AWS Network Firewall service in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region, enabling customers to deploy essential network protections for all their Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs).

Amazon Connect now supports JSON content-type in chat messages

Amazon Connect Chat now supports JSON content-type messages. Using JSON you can enable rich personalized experiences by allowing customers and agents to send/receive structured chat messages using the JSON format. For example, messages can be supplemented with additional data (metadata) to pass relevant information (e.g. recent purchases, order status), send custom interactive messages (e.g. buttons, carousels, cards), display language translations and more.

Amazon RDS announces integration with AWS Secrets Manager

Amazon RDS now supports integration with AWS Secrets Manager to streamline how you manage your master user password for your RDS database instances. With this feature, RDS fully manages the master user password and stores it in AWS Secrets Manager whenever your RDS database instances are created, modified, or restored. The new feature supports the entire lifecycle maintenance for your RDS master user password including regular and automatic password rotations; removing the need for you to manage rotations using custom Lambda functions.

Contact Lens for Amazon Connect now provides enhanced controls for redacting personal identifiable information

Contact Lens for Amazon Connect now provides enhanced controls that enable businesses to select specific personal identifiable information (PII) types that they want to redact from call and chat transcripts. Today, Contact Lens redacts PII types such as name, email, SSN, and others from the transcripts. With enhanced PII redaction, businesses now have the flexibility to choose specific PII types to redact (e.g. SSN) while not redacting other data that they want to see. Following are some of the common PII types supported by Contact Lens: name, email, account number, routing number, credit card details, SSN, PIN, phone, and more.

Amazon RDS Optimized Writes now supports R6g, and R6gd instances

The Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Optimized writes now supports R6g and R6gd instances. With Optimized Writes you can improve write throughout by up to 2x at no additional cost. This is especially useful for Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL customers with write-intensive database workloads, commonly found in applications such as digital payments, financial trading, and online gaming.

Amazon Connect now allows contact center managers to join ongoing calls

Amazon Connect now supports barge-in, a contact center capability that enables managers to help agents resolve customer issues quickly and ensure a superior customer experience. Using barge-in, managers can join and participate in an ongoing customer service call between a contact center agent and customer. After joining, a manager can speak with the customer, add participants, and even choose to remove an agent, if needed. Using Contact Lens for Amazon Connect, a manager can even define specific rules, such as low sentiment score, in order to receive a real-time alert to join a call.

Amazon Connect now supports Edge Chromium

Today, Amazon Connect announces general availability of Microsoft Edge Chromium browser support. Edge Chromium has grown in popularity and many companies have selected it as their preferred or enterprise-wide standard browser. With this launch, customers now have the option to use the Edge Chromium browser in all regions where Amazon Connect is available. To learn more about Amazon Connect’s browser support, see our documentation.

AWS IoT Core’s Rules Engine adds support for Google Protocol Buffer (Protobuf) messaging format

AWS IoT Core announces the capability to decode Google Protocol Buffer (Protobuf) encoded messages to JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format using the AWS IoT Core Rules Engine, making it easier to use Protobuf directly in your IoT Rule, without the need to invoke a Lambda function to decode the Protobuf message.

Announcing AWS ParallelCluster 3.4 with Multi-AZ support and other important features

AWS ParallelCluster 3.4 is now generally available and introduces the ability to create HPC clusters that can access and aggregate compute capacity across multiple AWS Availability Zones (AZ) in a Region. Other important features in this release include:\n

Amazon VPC configuration for AWS Lambda functions used by ParallelCluster for managing your clusters.

Custom AWS IAM prefixes for ParallelCluster IAM roles and policies to enable permission boundaries. 

Secure file-system mounting for Amazon EFS to enable in-transit encryption and IAM authorizations. 

Ability to set up custom actions for cluster updates.

AWS Transfer Family announces built-in PGP decryption for file uploads

AWS Transfer Family announces built-in support for PGP decryption of files uploaded over SFTP, FTPS or FTP to Amazon S3 or Amazon EFS. Customers can now configure and automate decryption of files that are encrypted using PGP keys by their users before upload, making it easy to meet their data protection and compliance requirements when exchanging sensitive data with third parties.

AWS Batch adds visibility for terminated and cancelled jobs

AWS Batch now enables you to gain visibility into the current state of a terminated or cancelled job. This means that once you terminate/cancel a job, a flag of isTerminated or isCancelled can be observed in the job payload throughout the queue before it moves to either a ‘Terminated’ or ‘Cancelled’ state.

AWS Compute Optimizer now supports Amazon ECS services running on AWS Fargate

AWS Compute Optimizer now delivers recommendations to help customers identify optimal Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) task CPU and memory configurations for Amazon ECS services running on AWS Fargate.

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