12/18/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 12/19/2023, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

Amazon Cognito user pools now support the ability to customize access tokens

Amazon Cognito user pools now support the ability to enrich access tokens with custom attributes in the form of OAuth 2.0 scopes and claims. You can make application-specific advanced authorization decisions using custom attributes in the access token. This feature also allows you to personalize end-user experiences and improve customer engagement.

Amazon EKS introduces simplified controls for IAM cluster access management

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now supports simplified configuration of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) users and roles with Kubernetes clusters, through a new set of APIs that tightly integrate IAM identities with Kubernetes authentication and authorization controls.

AWS announces an integrated mobile experience for AWS services in the AWS Console Mobile App

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is announcing an integrated mobile experience for AWS services in the AWS Console Mobile App for iOS. AWS customers using the AWS Console Mobile App for iOS can now access the full breadth of AWS resource information and management functionality that’s available to them on the AWS Console for natively supported services including EC2, RDS, and S3 via an integrated mobile web browser experience in the Console Mobile App.

AWS Cloud9 now supports Amazon Linux 2023

You can now launch AWS Cloud9 environments with Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023). AL2023 is the next generation of Amazon Linux, a Linux server operating system from Amazon Web Services (AWS). AL2023 provides a secure, stable, and high performance execution environment to develop and run cloud and enterprise applications. With AL2023, you get an application environment that offers long-term support with access to the latest innovations in Linux. AL2023 is provided at no additional charge.

Amazon OpenSearch Service adds multimodal support for Neural Search

Amazon OpenSearch Service adds multimodal support on Neural Search for OpenSearch 2.11 deployments. This empowers builders to create and operationalize multimodal search applications with significantly reduced undifferentiated heavy-lifting. For years, customers have been building vector search applications on OpenSearch k-NN, but they’ve been burdened with building middleware to integrate text embedding models into search and ingest pipelines. OpenSearch builders can now power multimodal search through out-of-the-box integrations with Amazon Bedrock text and image multimodal APIs to power search pipelines that run on-cluster.

Amazon Redshift supports single sign-on with Amazon QuickSight and AWS Lake Formation

Amazon Redshift customers can now use the identities in their identity provider (IdP), such as Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, Ping, OneLogin, etc., to access Amazon Redshift in a single sign-on experience from Amazon QuickSight or Amazon Redshift Query Editor. Administrators can manage fine grained access to data in Redshift using the users and groups in the organization IdP, and can audit user access in AWS CloudTrail.

AWS Backup Audit Manager adds new control to audit restore time targets

Today, AWS Backup Audit Manager adds a new control allowing you to audit restore time targets against your resources. With this launch, you can help your organizations recovery preparations by specifying restore time targets for your resources, and evaluating whether they meet your business or compliance requirements.

Amazon CodeCatalyst Dev Environments now supports Virtual Private Cloud

Today, AWS announces support for Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) within Amazon CodeCatalyst Dev Environments. This launch allows you to connect to a VPC from your Dev Environment, extending the number of developer scenarios supported by CodeCatalyst.

AWS Security Hub launches 15 new security controls

AWS Security Hub has released 15 new security controls, increasing the number of controls offered to 307. Security Hub now supports additional AWS services such as Amazon FSx and AWS Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA). Security Hub also released new controls against previously supported services like Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). For the full list of recently released controls and the AWS Regions in which they are available, visit the Security Hub user guide.

Amazon EC2 HPC instances now available in additional regions

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Hpc7a instances are available in Europe (Stockholm) Region, and EC2 Hpc6a instances are available in Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region.

Amazon DynamoDB local adds support for two DynamoDB API features

Amazon DynamoDB local now supports table deletion protection and the ReturnValuesOnConditionCheckFailure parameter. With DynamoDB local, you can develop and test applications by running DynamoDB in your local development environment without incurring any costs. DynamoDB local does not require an internet connection, and it works with your existing DynamoDB API calls.

Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights launches cross-account observability for Amazon EKS

Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights launches cross-account observability across Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) to help you monitor and troubleshoot applications that span across multiple AWS accounts within an AWS Region. Central Operational Teams managing container administration can now monitor and analyze container health and performance across their organization from a consolidated view and maintain the overall application health status to achieve the best business results.

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