1/17/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 1/18/2023, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

AWS Managed Services (AMS) is now available in Africa (Cape Town) region

AWS Managed Services (AMS) Accelerate Operations Plan is now available in Cape Town region. AMS helps you operate AWS efficiently and securely. It provides proactive, preventative, and detective capabilities that raise the operational bar and help reduce risk without constraining agility, allowing you to focus on innovation. AMS extends your team with operational capabilities including monitoring, incident detection and management, security, patch, backup, and cost optimization.

Amazon CloudWatch announces enhanced error visibility for Embedded Metric Format (EMF)

Amazon CloudWatch now provides enhanced visibility into errors in Embedded Metric Format (EMF), with two new error metrics (EMFValidationErrors & EMFParsingErrors).

EC2 network performance metrics add support for ConnTrack Utilization metric

Amazon EC2 network performance metrics now supports a new metric to monitor available EC2 instance tracked connections, the ConnTrack Utilization metric. EC2 instance Security Groups act as stateful virtual firewalls to control incoming and outgoing traffic. These stateful firewalls track network connection information to enable return traffic to and from an instance to pass through. With this new metric customers have visibility into the number of ConnTrack entries remaining, which will allow them to proactively manage capacity and select the right instance size to meet emergent demand.

Amazon Detective adds new AWS managed IAM policies to improve secure access for security analysts

Today, we released two new AWS managed policies for Amazon Detective. AWS managed policies make it easier for users to gain the proper level of permissions to leverage the service for security investigations. AWS managed policies are maintained by AWS to reduce work for customers in managing access permissions for users in specific job roles. For more information on AWS managed policies, you can read AWS managed policies in the IAM User Guide.

Amazon EFS Supports 1,000 Access Points per File System

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) has increased the maximum number of Access Points per file system from 120 to 1,000, enabling you to control file system access permissions across a larger number of applications in multi-tenant environments.

AWS Systems Manager announces Patch Policies, enabling cross account and cross Region patching

Now deploy patch policies across AWS accounts and AWS Regions using AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager and AWS Organizations.

EC2 Image Builder adds Center for Internet Security (CIS) Benchmarks for security hardening of Amazon Machine Images

Now customers can use EC2 Image Builder to create custom Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) that are hardened using Center for Internet Security (CIS) Benchmarks. EC2 Image Builder hosts CIS Benchmarks Level 1 for Amazon Linux 2, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7, Microsoft Windows Server 2019, and Microsoft Windows Server 2022. You no longer have to manage your own custom scripts for CIS Level 1 hardening of images with these operating systems. With this feature, you can also choose to automatically update AMIs to the latest version of the CIS standards as they become available.

EC2 Image Builder can now include AWS Marketplace subscriptions in your custom Amazon Machine Images (AMIs)

Now customers can search AWS Marketplace Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) directly in the EC2 Image Builder Console and use those AMIs as base images in their image build workflows. Those AMIs can be accessed and used via the EC2 Image Builder Console, CLI, API, CloudFormation and CDK interfaces. This feature makes it easier for you to seamlessly track and integrate your AWS Marketplace AMI subscriptions in your image customization workflows.

AWS Network Firewall announces IPv6 support

AWS Network Firewall now supports IPv6 for dual stack subnets so you can filter IPv4 and IPv6 traffic flows to and from the public internet, on-premises network, or any endpoint in your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Now, you can use AWS Network Firewall to protect your IPv6 workloads on AWS.

Amazon Corretto January, 2023 Quarterly Updates

On January 17, 2023 Amazon announced quarterly security and critical updates for Amazon Corretto Long-Term Supported (LTS) versions of OpenJDK. Corretto 19.0.2, 17.0.6, 11.0.18, 8u362 are now available for download. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK.

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