10/25/2024, 12:00:00 AM ~ 10/28/2024, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

AWS Firewall Manager now supports retrofitting of existing AWS WAF WebACLs

Starting today, AWS Firewall Manager enables customers to centrally create policies for AWS WAF that add baseline rule sets to existing WAF WebACLs associated with their resources. Security administrators can now use Firewall Manager policies for WAF to insert first and last rule groups or centrally configure a logging destination for existing WebACLs while leaving custom rule sets intact.\n By enabling the “retrofit“ setting on a Firewall Manager WAF policy, security administrators can centrally define baseline protection that applies to resources protected by WAF while ensuring it is enforced by the WebACLs that are already associated with those resources. This allows customers to rapidly deploy a standard set of WAF rules to all web applications before, during, or after a security event without affecting existing WAF deployments, such as those with application-specific rule sets or infrastructure-as-code (IaC) pipelines. To learn more about the feature, see documentation. For more details on the service and region availability, please visit the service website and AWS Region Table.

AWS now accepts partial card payments

Today, we are enabling AWS customers who pay with their cards to make partial payments towards their monthly bill. Until now, customers could only pay their entire bill at once, prior to the due date. With partial payments, customers can split the amount due into smaller payments which they can charge on different cards, to accommodate their business needs. This functionality, which would have previously required calling AWS Customer Service, is now available by logging into your Console account.\n To make partial payments, login to your AWS Billing Console, then go to the Payments section, and select the invoice(s) you want to pay. Next, choose the eligible card you want to use, edit the amount you want to pay, then review and confirm your partial payment. You may use the same process multiple times with other cards. After your bank processes the payments, you are done! We are launching this functionality for credit and debit cards. If you run into any issues, like your card being declined, you can try a different eligible card. You can also contact AWS Customer Service if you need help. To learn more about how to make partial payments with your card, see Making payments in the Billing User Guide.

Announcing increased quotas and improvements to CloudWatch Logs Anomaly Detection and Pattern Analysis

Amazon CloudWatch is excited to announce improvements to its log pattern analysis and anomaly detection features. First, CloudWatch Logs Insights pattern and diff commands now use named tokens to make the results easier to read. Second, the default quota for Log Anomaly detectors has been increased from 10 to 500 per account.\n CloudWatch Logs Insights customers use Machine Lowered (ML) powered commands to aggregate logs into patterns, enabling thousands of logs to be condensed to few lines for analysis. Now, the pattern and diff commands make it eaiser to analyze your log data by parsing and naming fields according to the data type. For example, a field containing an ARN values will now be named ARN-1, a field containing an IP address will be named IPV4-1, etc. Using the named patterns, customers can easily identify and inspect common fields that occur in their logs such as Request IDs, HTTP response codes, and more. This feature is now supported in all AWS Regions where CloudWatch Logs Anomaly Detection is available. To get started with the pattern and diff commands, visit the CloudWatch Logs Insights Query Syntax Guide or select “Query help” from within the CloudWatch Log Insights console page. See the documentation to get started with CloudWatch Logs Anomaly Detection.

Amazon Aurora Global Database support for tagging global clusters

Amazon Aurora Global Database now supports applying tags to your global clusters, enabling you to associate metadata information with your overall Global Database cluster. For instance, you can apply a tag to organize resource costs for your entire Global Database cluster, making it easier to categorize and track your AWS costs.\n Aurora Global Database allows a single Aurora database to span multiple AWS Regions, providing disaster recovery from Region-wide outages and enabling fast local reads for globally distributed applications. With this launch, you can now apply tags at various levels in your Global Database, including tagging your global cluster, individual primary or secondary clusters, and individual database instances. You can apply tags for these resources using the AWS Management Console, Command Line Interface (CLI), or RDS API. The feature is available in all AWS Regions and for all Aurora MySQL and Aurora PostgreSQL version where Aurora Global Database is available. See our documentation to learn more. Amazon Aurora is designed for unparalleled high performance and availability at a global scale with full MySQL and PostgreSQL compatibility. To get started with Amazon Aurora, take a look at our getting started page.

AWS Storage Gateway is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region

AWS Storage Gateway expands availability to the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region enabling customers to deploy and manage hybrid cloud storage for their on-premises workloads.\n AWS Storage Gateway is a hybrid cloud storage service that provides on-premises applications access to virtually unlimited storage in the cloud. You can use AWS Storage Gateway for backing up and archiving data to AWS, providing on-premises file shares backed by cloud storage, and providing on-premises applications low latency access to data in the cloud. Visit the AWS Storage Gateway product page to learn more. Access the AWS Storage Gateway console to get started. To see all the Regions where AWS Storage Gateway is available, please visit the AWS Region table.

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