12/19/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 12/20/2023, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
Amazon RDS launches an enhanced experience for RDS Recommendations
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now provides an enhanced experience for RDS Recommendations that consolidates configuration best practices, threshold-based proactive performance recommendations, and machine learning (ML) powered performance anomalies.
Amazon Elastic Container Registry now supports wildcards in lifecycle policies
Today, Amazon launched support for wildcards in the lifecycle policy feature (LCP) of Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR). With this launch, customers can now create lifecycle policies using wildcards in their filters. Wildcards can be used to match image tags that contain one or more specific string in any position.
Amazon FSx for OpenZFS now supports on-demand data replication across AWS Regions and accounts
Today, AWS announces on-demand data replication for Amazon FSx for OpenZFS across AWS Regions and/or AWS accounts, enabling you to easily and efficiently transfer incremental point-in-time snapshots of your volumes to a different AWS Region or account. On-demand data replication now provides a simple and resilient way to implement disaster recovery, replicate production data to a different region or account, and enable lower latency data access for your global customer base or workforce.
AWS Audit Manager now supports PCI 4.0 for automated evidence collection
Today, AWS Audit Manager announces support for the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard v4.0 (PCI DSS v4.0) for automated evidence collection. This new standard framework can be leveraged by customers that store, process, or transmit cardholder data or sensitive authentication data to help them prepare for audits using a prebuilt collection of controls and automated evidence sources.
Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) Performance Insights now generates recommendations that inform you of impending database performance and availability issues before they become critical. RDS Performance Insights continuously monitors database instances for potential issues that can lead to degraded database health in the future. When it detects such conditions, it generates new recommendations that describe the nature of the impending problem, and includes specific actions you can take to mitigate that problem. These recommendations are available to Performance Insights paid tier customers.
AWS Network Firewall egress TLS inspection is now available in all regions
Egress Transport Layer Security (TLS) inspection for AWS Network Firewall is now available in all AWS Regions where AWS Network Firewall is available today, including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. This launch allows you to use AWS Network Firewall to decrypt TLS sessions and inspect inbound and outbound VPC traffic without the need to deploy or manage any additional network security infrastructure. Encryption and decryption happen on the same firewall instance natively, so traffic doesn’t cross any network boundaries.
AWS Elemental MediaConnect now available in three additional AWS Regions
Today, AWS announces the availability of AWS Elemental MediaConnect in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), and Middle East (UAE) AWS Regions, allowing you to ingest, transport, and process your high-quality video in the cloud in more locations globally.
AWS AppSync provides additional configurations to manage GraphQL API usage
AWS AppSync is a fully managed service that allows customers to connect applications to data and events with GraphQL APIs. AppSync allows customers to create APIs that connect to multiple data sources like microservice APIs, relational databases, and NoSQL databases. With AppSync APIs, applications can efficiently fetch data from different sources in one request.
Amazon EC2 C6in instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong, Melbourne)
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C6in instances are available in AWS Region Asia Pacific (Hong Kong, Melbourne). These sixth-generation network optimized instances, powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and built on the AWS Nitro System, deliver up to 200Gbps network bandwidth, 2x more network bandwidth and up to 2x higher packet-processing performance over comparable fifth-generation instances.
AWS Verified Access is now available in 8 more regions including AWS GovCloud (US)
Starting today, AWS Verified Access that allows allows you to provide secure access to your corporate applications without using VPNs is available in Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Europe (Stockholm), Europe (Milan), Israel (Tel Aviv), and the AWS GovCloud (US-West and US East) Regions. Built using AWS Zero Trust guiding principles, Verified Access helps you implement a work-from-anywhere model in a secure and scalable manner.
AWS ParallelCluster 3.8 with support for Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML
AWS ParallelCluster 3.8 is now generally available. Key features in this release are support for Rocky Linux 8 and Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML, allowing you to reserve highly sought-after GPU instances on a future date to support your short duration machine learning (ML) workloads. Other important features in this release include:\n
Scaling strategies to help you meet your scaling and cost requirements, ranging from strict all-or-nothing, that avoid launching idle instances, to best-effort, which prioritizes throughput scaling over avoiding idle instances.
Support for mounting user-defined file systems in AWS to the /home directory of the head node, helping you simplify cluster storage management.
Custom Munge key to help you simplify integration of additional cluster resources that require the Scheduler Munge key.
AWS AppFabric now supports 7 additional applications
Today, AWS AppFabric announces support for seven new software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications: Atlassian Confluence, Genesys Cloud, HubSpot, OneLogin by One Identity, PagerDuty, Ping Identity, and Barracuda XDR. Starting now, IT administrators and security analysts can use AWS AppFabric to aggregate enriched and normalized SaaS audit logs from 20 total applications, or audit end-user access of each application. This launch expands AWS AppFabric’s supported applications.
AWS Application Discovery Service adds storage monitoring for VMware
Today, we are announcing a new capability of the AWS Application Discovery Service Agentless Collector to monitor the free disk space of virtual machines running on VMware vCenter 7.0 or newer. This allows you to predict the minimum size of block storage your virtual machines will require as part of your migration plan.
AWS India customers can now save cards in AWS for faster invoice payments
Starting today, AWS India customers can securely save their India issued credit or debit card as per the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) guidelines.
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