Amazon Elasticsearch Service now offers a detailed audit log of all Elasticsearch requests. Audit Logs allows customers to record a trail of all user actions, helping meet compliance regulations, improving the overall security posture and providing evidence for security investigations.  Read More for the details.

Amazon Aurora Parallel Query is now available with MySQL 5.7 compatibility. Parallel Query provides faster analytical queries over your transactional data, speeding up your queries by up to 2 orders of magnitude, while maintaining high throughput for your core transactional workload.  Read More for the details.

Amazon API Gateway now supports mutual TLS (mTLS) authentication. Customers can now enable mTLS on custom domain names for regional REST and HTTP APIs at no additional cost. Mutual TLS enhances the security of your API and helps protect your data from attacks such as client spoofing or man-in-the middle attacks.   Read More for […]

You can now view AWS Step Functions workflows in your AWS Lambda console, making it easier to orchestrate Lambda functions into business critical applications. Read More for the details.

Amazon Detective is now available in the Africa (Cape Town) & Europe (Milan) regions. You can now easily analyze, investigate, and quickly identify the root cause of potential security issues or suspicious activities in these regions.  Read More for the details.

AWS IoT Device SDK for Embedded C (C-SDK) version 202009.00 is now available with refactored MQTT, JSON, and AWS IoT Device Shadow libraries optimized for memory usage and modularity, and it includes dependent libraries added via GitHub submoduling. The refactored libraries have gone through code quality checks including for GNU Complexity, MISRA coding standard, Coverity […]

Amazon Connect now provides an API to manage routing profiles in an instance. Using this API, you can programmatically create new routing profiles or update existing routing profiles to adapt to changing traffic patterns in your contact center. For example, you can automatically adjust queue priorities when there are spikes in contact volumes to prioritize […]

You can now provide multiple creation and retention schedules for your EBS Snapshots within a single Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM) policy. Multiple schedule support enables you to create Daily, Weekly and Monthly snapshots for your target volumes from the same DLM policy, reducing the setup time and making it easier to manage DLM policies.  Read […]

Amazon Detective now analyzes IAM role sessions so that you can visualize and understand the actions that users and apps have performed using assumed roles. With this new capability, Detective enables you to answer questions such as “which federated user invoked APIs that are associated with a security finding?”, “what API calls did a user […]