AWS CloudFormation announces the preview of AWS CloudFormation Guard (cfn-guard), an open-source command line interface (CLI) that helps enterprises keep their AWS infrastructure and application resources in compliance with their company policy guidelines. Cfn-guard provides compliance administrators with a simple, policy-as-code language to define rules that can check for both required and prohibited resource configurations. […]

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now lets you automatically update the instances in your Auto Scaling Groups (ASG) to release new application versions or make infrastructure changes. Traditionally, customers had to write custom scripts and build systems to update ASG configurations with new AMIs. With the new Instance Refresh feature, customers can now trigger configuration updates […]

AWS announces the launch of AWS AppConfig hosted configurations, a new feature that simplifies on-boarding to AWS AppConfig to enable customers to deploy configurations in seconds. AWS AppConfig makes it easy for AWS customers to quickly roll out application configurations across applications hosted on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, containers, AWS Lambda, mobile […]

Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), consulting partners, and data providers from United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Norway, and Switzerland are now eligible to sell software and data products in AWS Marketplace and AWS Data Exchange. These offerings add to the global catalog of 7,000+ software and data products from 1,500+ ISVs and data providers in AWS […]

AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) now supports CloudFormation templates for automating SSL/TLS certificate issuance for DNS-validated certificates with domains managed in Route 53, issuance of private certificates from an ACM Private Certificate Authority, and configuration of certificate transparency (CT) logging. Read More for the details.

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) capacity providers now support delete functionality. You can delete capacity providers once they are no longer in use using either the AWS Management Console or the new DeleteCapacityProvider API. Read More for the details.

AWS Lambda customers can now enable functions to access Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS). Customers can easily share data across function invocations, read large reference data files, and write function output to a persistent and shared data store. Read More for the details.

You can now use AWS DataSync to transfer data into and out of 2 additional AWS Regions: Europe (Milan) and Africa (Cape Town).  Read More for the details.