11/13/2024, 12:00:00 AM ~ 11/14/2024, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

AWS Client VPN now supports the latest Ubuntu OS versions - 22.04 LTS and 24.04 LTS

AWS Client VPN now supports Linux desktop client with Ubuntu versions 22.04 LTS and 24.04 LTS. You can now run the AWS supplied VPN client on the latest Ubuntu OS versions. AWS Client VPN desktop clients are available free of charge, and can be downloaded here.\n AWS Client VPN is a managed service that securely connects your remote workforce to AWS or on-premises networks. It supports desktop clients for MacOS, Windows, and Ubuntu-Linux. With this release, CVPN now supports the latest version of Ubuntu client (i.e. 22.04 LTS and 24.04 LTS). It already support Mac OS version 12.0, 13.0 and 14.0, and Windows 10 and 11. This client version is available in all regions where AWS Client VPN is generally available with no additional cost. To learn more about Client VPN:

Visit the AWS Client VPN product page

Read the AWS Client VPN documentation

AWS Control Tower launches the ability to resolve drift for optional controls

AWS Control Tower customers can now use the ResetEnabledControl API to programmatically resolve the control drift or re-deploy the control to its intended configuration. A control drift occurs when the AWS Control Tower managed control is modified outside the AWS Control Tower governance. Resolving drift helps you to adhere to your governance and compliance requirements. You can use this API with all AWS Control Tower optional controls except service control policies(SCPs) based preventive controls. AWS Control Tower APIs enhance the end-to-end developer experience by enabling automation for integrated workflows and managing workloads at scale.\n Below is the list of AWS Control Tower control APIs that are now supported in the regions where AWS Control Tower is available. Please visit the AWS Control Tower API reference for more information.

AWS Control Tower Control APIs - EnableControl, DisableControl, GetControlOperation, GetEnabledControl, ListEnabledControls, UpdateEnabledControl, TagResource, UnTagResource, ListTagsForResource, ResetEnabledControl API.

To learn more, visit the AWS Control Tower homepage. For more information about the AWS Regions where AWS Control Tower is available, see the AWS Region table.

Amazon EC2 Mac instances now available in AWS Canada (Central) Region

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M2 Mac instances are now generally available (GA) in the AWS Canada (Central) region. This marks the first time we are introducing Mac instances to an AWS Canadian region, providing customers with even greater global accessibility to Apple silicon hardware. Customers can now run their macOS workloads in AWS Canada (Central) region to satisfy their data residency requirements, benefit from improved latency to end-users, while also integrating with their pre-existing AWS environment configurations within this region.\n M2 Mac instances deliver up to 10% faster performance over M1 Mac instances when building and testing applications for Apple platforms such as iOS, macOS, iPadOS, tvOS, watchOS, visionOS, and Safari. M2 Mac instances are powered by the AWS Nitro System and are built on Apple M2 Mac Mini computers featuring 8 core CPU, 10 core GPU, 24 GiB of memory, and 16 core Apple Neural Engine. With this expansion, EC2 M2 Mac instances are available across US East (N.Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Canada (Central) regions. To learn more or get started, see Amazon EC2 Mac Instances or visit the EC2 Mac documentation reference.

AWS Directory Service is available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region

AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory, also known as AWS Managed Microsoft AD, and AD Connector are now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region.\n Built on actual Microsoft Active Directory (AD), AWS Managed Microsoft AD enables you to migrate AD-aware applications while reducing the work of managing AD infrastructure in the AWS Cloud. You can use your Microsoft AD credentials to connect to AWS applications such as Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for SQL Server, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, and Amazon RDS for Oracle. You can keep your identities in your existing Microsoft AD or create and manage identities in your AWS managed directory. AD Connector is a proxy that enables AWS applications to use your existing on-premises AD identities without requiring AD infrastructure in the AWS Cloud. You can also use AD Connector to join Amazon EC2 instances to your on-premises AD domain and manage these instances using your existing group policies. Please see all AWS Regions where AWS Managed Microsoft AD and AD Connector are available. To learn more, see AWS Directory Service.

Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB is now available in China regions

You can now use Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB in the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWC. Timestream for InfluxDB makes it easy for application developers and DevOps teams to run fully managed InfluxDB databases on Amazon Web Services for real-time time-series applications using open-source APIs.\n Timestream for InfluxDB offers the full feature set available in the InfluxDB 2.7 release of the open-source version, and adds deployment options with Multi-AZ high availability and enhanced durability. For high availability, Timestream for InfluxDB allows you to automatically create a primary database instance and synchronously replicate the data to an instance in a different Availability Zone. When it detects a failure, Timestream for InfluxDB automatically fails over to a standby instance without manual intervention. With the latest release, customers can use Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB in the following regions: US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Canada (Central), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Europe (Paris), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Milan), Europe (Stockholm), Europe (Spain), Middle East (UAE), Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. To get started with Amazon Timestream, visit our product page.

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