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AWS – Amazon CloudWatch launches Observability Solutions for AWS Services and Workloads on AWS
Observability solutions help you get up-and-running faster with infrastructure and application monitoring at AWS. They are intended for developers who need opinionated guidance about the best options for observing AWS services, custom applications, and third-party workloads. Observability solutions include working examples of instrumentation, telemetry collection, custom dashboards, and metric alarms. Using observability solutions, you can […]

AWS – Introducing Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall Advanced
Today, AWS announced Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall Advanced, a new set of capabilities on Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall that allow you to monitor and block suspicious DNS traffic associated with advanced DNS threats, such as DNS tunneling and Domain Generation Algorithms (DGAs), that are designed to avoid detection by threat intelligence feeds […]

AWS – Amazon Time Sync Service supports Microsecond-Accurate Time in Stockholm Region
The Amazon Time Sync Service now supports clock synchronization within microseconds of UTC on Amazon EC2 instances in the Europe (Stockholm) region. Built on Amazon’s proven network infrastructure and the AWS Nitro System, customers can now access local, GPS-disciplined reference clocks on supported EC2 instances. These clocks can be used to more easily order application […]

AWS – AWS Organizations member accounts can now regain access to accidentally locked Amazon S3 buckets
AWS Organizations member accounts can now use a simple process through AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to regain access to accidentally locked Amazon S3 buckets. With this capability, you can repair misconfigured S3 bucket policies while improving your organization’s security and compliance posture. IAM now provides centralized management of long-term root credentials, helping you […]

AWS – AWS Transfer Family is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region
Customers in AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region can now use AWS Transfer Family. AWS Transfer Family provides fully managed file transfers for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) over Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), File Transfer Protocol (FTP), FTP over SSL (FTPS) and Applicability Statement 2 (AS2). In […]

AWS – Amazon EventBridge event delivery latency metric now in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
The Amazon EventBridge Event Bus end-to-end event delivery latency metric in Amazon CloudWatch that tracks the duration between event ingestion and successful delivery to the targets on your Event Bus is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. This new IngestionToInvocationSuccessLatency allows you to now detect and respond to event […]

AWS – AWS Control Tower launches configurable managed controls implemented using resource control policies
Today we are excited to announce the launch of AWS managed controls implemented using resource control policies (RCPs) in AWS Control Tower. These new optional preventive controls help you centrally apply organization-wide access controls around AWS resources in your organization. Additionally, you can now configure the new RCP and existing service control policies (SCP) preventive […]

AWS – AWS Partner CRM Connector Adds Partner Central API Support
Starting today, the AWS Partner CRM Connector further simplifies co-sell actions between Salesforce and AWS Partner Central through APN Customer Engagement (ACE) integration. Partners can now share and receive AWS opportunities faster through the Partner Central API, use multi-object mapping to simplify related field mapping and reduce redundant data between Salesforce and ACE Pipeline Manager, and receive […]

AWS – Split cost allocation data for Amazon EKS now supports metrics from Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights
Starting today, you can use CPU and memory metrics collected by Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights for your Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) clusters in split cost allocation data for Amazon EKS, so you can get granular Kubernetes pod-level costs and make it available in AWS Cost and Usage Reports (CUR). This provides more granular cost […]
AWS – Centrally manage root access in AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Today, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is launching a new capability allowing customers to centrally manage their root credentials, simplify auditing of credentials, and perform tightly scoped privileged tasks across their AWS member accounts managed using AWS Organizations. Now, administrators can remove unnecessary root credentials for member accounts in AWS Organizations and then, if […]