8/2/2024, 12:00:00 AM ~ 8/5/2024, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

Amazon DataZone achieves PCI DSS Certification

Amazon DataZone has obtained the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance certification, demonstrating that it meets requirements established by the PCI Security Standards Council for handling payment account data securely, as required by financial and insurance industry customers handling credit card payments.\n The certification includes the 2024 PCI 3-D Secure (3DS) assessment and the shared responsibility guide. These are now available to AWS customers in the AWS Management Console through AWS Artifact, which can help enable PCI 3DS attestation for customers. This attestation may be required to support application-based authentication, digital wallet integration, and browser-based e-commerce transactions using the AWS Services. Amazon DataZone is a data management service that makes it faster and easier for customers to catalog, discover, share, and govern data between data producers and consumers in their organization. For more information about Amazon DataZone and how to get started, refer to our product page and review the Amazon DataZone technical documentation.

AWS Payment Cryptography is now available in four new regions across Europe and Asia

AWS Payment Cryptography is now available in four new regions - Europe(Frankfurt), Europe(Ireland), Asia Pacific(Singapore) and Asia Pacific(Tokyo). Adding new regional support allows customers with low-latency payment applications to build, deploy or migrate into additional AWS Regions without relying on cross-region support. Customers using AWS Payment Cryptography can simplify cryptography operations in their payment applications with a service that grows elastically, provides modern APIs and integrates into AWS services such as IAM and CloudTrail.\n AWS Payment Cryptography is a managed AWS service that provides access to cryptographic functions and key management used in payment processing in accordance with Payment Card Industry (PCI) security standards without the need to procure dedicated payment HSM instances. The service provides customers performing payment functions such as acquirers, payment facilitators, networks, switches, processors, and banks with the ability to move their payment cryptographic operations closer to applications in the cloud and minimize dependencies on auxiliary data centers or colocation facilities containing dedicated payment HSMs. AWS Payment Cryptography is available in the following AWS Regions: US East (Ohio, N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland, Frankfurt) and Asia Pacific (Singapore, Tokyo). To learn more about the service, see the AWS Payment Cryptography user guide, and visit the AWS Payment Cryptography page for pricing details and availability in additional regions.

AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) expands DMS homogeneous data migrations feature to 29 AWS regions

In June 2023, AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) launched a homogeneous data migration feature to simplify and accelerate like-to-like migrations to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) or Amazon Aurora.\n Today, we are pleased to announce that the DMS homogeneous data migrations feature is now made generally available in 29 AWS regions (includes 9 AWS regions from the June 2023 launch). These include: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), US East (Ohio), Europe (Ireland), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Singapore), US West (N. California), South America (São Paulo), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Canada (Central), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Middle East (Bahrain), Europe (Milan), Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Middle East (UAE), Europe (Zurich), Europe (Spain), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Israel (Tel Aviv), and Canada West (Calgary). The DMS homogeneous data migration feature uses Built-in native database tooling to provide simple and performant like-to-like migrations with minimal downtime. It supports migrating from PostgreSQL (version:10.4 - 14.x), MySQL (version: 5.7 and higher), MariaDB (version:10.2 and higher), MongoDB (version:4.x, 5.x, and 6.0), and Amazon DocumentDB (version:3.6, 4.0, and 5.0) databases with both full load and ongoing replication options. Supported source locations include on-premises, Amazon EC2, or Amazon DocumentDB and supported targets include Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), Amazon Aurora, Amazon DocumentDB and Amazon DocumentDB Elastic cluster. To learn more, see AWS DMS homogeneous migrations in the AWS Database Migration Service Documentation.

Amazon EBS Fast Snapshot Restore (FSR) is now available in six additional regions

Amazon EBS Fast Snapshot Restore (FSR) is now available in the AWS Europe (Zurich), Europe (Spain), Middle East (UAE), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), and Israel (Tel Aviv) regions.\n For volumes that are created from snapshots, the storage blocks must be pulled down from Amazon S3 and written to the volume before you can access them. This initialization process takes time and can cause a significant increase in the latency of I/O operations the first time each block is accessed. Volume performance is achieved after initialization is complete and all blocks have been downloaded and written to the volume. Launched in 2019, FSR eliminates the need for volume initialization, and ensures that EBS volumes restored from FSR-enabled snapshots instantly receive full provisioned performance. With FSR, you get improved and predictable performance which helps with use cases such as virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), backup & restore, test/dev volume copies, and booting from custom AMIs. You can now also use Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager to automate and manage Fast Snapshot Restore on snapshots created by Data Lifecycle Manager in these regions. To learn more, see the technical documentation, blog, and pricing pages on FSR. This feature is now available through the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), AWS SDKs, or the AWS console in all commercial AWS regions.

Announcing purchase order support for AWS Data Exchange private offers

Today, AWS Marketplace is extending transaction purchase order support to AWS Data exchange private offers, giving customers the ability to ensure their invoices reflect the proper purchase order number. This launch makes it easier for customers to process and pay invoices.\n AWS Marketplace transaction purchase orders will allow the purchase order number that a customer provides at the time of the transaction in AWS Marketplace to appear on all out-of-cycle invoices related to that purchase. Today, a customer’s management (payer) account and linked accounts can provide a purchase order number at the time of purchase in AWS Marketplace for professional services, SaaS contracts, AMI contracts, container contracts, CloudFormation template contracts, helm chart contracts, and private offers with a flexible payment schedule for AMI, container, CloudFormation templates, and helm chart products with annual pricing models. Now, customers can also add transaction purchase order numbers for AWS Data Exchange private offers at the time of offer acceptance in the AWS Data Exchange console. To enable transaction purchase orders for AWS Marketplace, sign into the management account (for AWS Organizations) and enable the AWS Billing integration in the AWS Marketplace Console settings. To learn more, read the AWS Marketplace Buyer Guide.

Amazon Connect launches the ability to configure when whisper flows are used

Amazon Connect now supports the ability to configure when whisper flows are used during a contact to optimize flow performance. A whisper flow is what a customer or agent experiences during the moment when they are connected to each other in a voice or chat conversation. With this launch, you can turn off whisper flows, helping you further optimize your flow’s performance and reduce contact duration. For example, you can choose to turn off whisper flows during an outbound or callback scenario to save time when the agent and customer are expecting the contact.\n This feature is available in all AWS regions where Amazon Connect is offered. To learn more about flows, see the Amazon Connect Administrator Guide. To learn more about Amazon Connect, the AWS cloud-based contact center, please visit the Amazon Connect website.

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