AWS IoT Device Defender is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region, an isolated AWS Region designed to host sensitive data and regulated workloads in the cloud, assisting customers who have U.S. federal, state, and local government compliance requirements. Read More for the details.

Customers that use Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) can now send SMS text messages from the US West (N. California) region to mobile users. Using Amazon SNS, customers can send a message directly to a phone number, or can send a message to multiple phone numbers at once via Amazon SNS topics. Customers can […]

In addition to the previously supported OIDC/OAuth2 authorization option, customers can now secure Amazon API Gateway HTTP APIs using two new authorization options: Lambda authorizers and IAM authorizers. These new options enable customers to make flexible authorization decisions by providing an AWS Lambda function, or leveraging AWS IAM policies to control access to their APIs […]

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now offers MSK version 2.4.1.1, a bug fix release of Apache Kafka version 2.4.1, addressing a critical bug (KAFKA-9752) that causes consumer groups to perpetually rebalance. MSK recommends that all customers who use or plan to use Apache Kafka version 2.4.1 instead use or upgrade their clusters […]

You can now initiate on-demand scanning for patch compliance in accordance with your patch rules, remediate when patches are out of compliance within seconds using AWS Systems Managers Patch Manager, and track the progress in real time. You can patch your instances using pre-defined concurrency and error threshold configurations offered by Patch Manager. This new […]

AWS Service Catalog now supports the use of administrator-provided names for product discovery, provisioning, and searches on running products. With this new feature, administrators can define their taxonomy for product naming and versioning, and this taxonomy is accessible to builders and administrators for use within their code and scripts. Referencing by name helps builders innovate […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) now supports AWS Graviton2-based database instances in Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney) regions in preview. Graviton2 M6g and R6g database instances deliver better price performance over comparable current generation x86-based database instances. You can launch these database instances when using Amazon RDS for MySQL and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. For […]

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) customers can now leverage EC2 security groups to secure applications with varying network security requirements on shared cluster compute resources. Read More for the details.