Starting today, Local Write Forwarding is generally available for Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition 3 (with MySQL 8.0 compatibility). This new capability makes it simple to scale read workloads which require read after write consistency. Customers can now issue transactions containing both reads and writes on Aurora read replicas and the writes will be automatically forwarded […]

Starting today, Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition 3 (with MySQL 8.0 compatibility) will support MySQL 8.0.28. In addition to several security enhancements and bug fixes, MySQL 8.0.28 includes several improvements, such as Instant DDL support for Rename column operations, support for multi-threaded DDL operations, support for TLS v1.3 protocol, and performance schema monitoring enhancements.. For more […]

Amazon Connect now supports custom flow block titles that make it easy to identify and distinguish blocks within your flow. Custom flow block titles can be set within the flow designer UI or via API. For example, you could rename a “Play Prompt” flow block to “Welcome message” or a “Get customer input” flow block […]

Today, AWS IoT Core announced the support for new algorithms for certificate signing and key generation, expanding the list of already supported asymmetric X.509 client certificate signature schemes. AWS IoT Core is a managed service that allows customers to connect billions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices to AWS and uses X.509 certificates as one […]

Amazon Inspector now provides enhanced vulnerability intelligence as a part of its findings. The enhanced vulnerability intelligence includes names of known malware kits used to exploit a vulnerability, mapping to MITRE ATT&CK® framework, the date Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the vulnerability to Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog (KVEC), Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS) […]

Amazon Connect now supports archiving and deleting flows from the flow designer UI, making it easier to manage flows that are not in use or no longer needed. For example, flows used only during certain times of the year can be archived when not in use and then unarchived when needed. When a flow has […]

Amazon Connect now supports restricting the use and access of attributes to a single flow. Now, you can granularly control when an attribute is associated with a contact (and shows up in the contact record) or if it can only be accessed by a specific flow (used only when that flows is executing a customer […]

Amazon Connect flow designer now includes a toolbar with shortcuts to new editing capabilities such as undo (including a history of previous actions) and redo, along with existing shortcuts such as copy and paste. You can also now add notes to a flow, allowing you to document things like what the flow is doing or […]

Today, AWS Clean Rooms launches two new capabilities that give customers flexibility to generate richer insights: custom analysis rule and analysis templates. These capabilities enable customers to bring their own custom SQL queries into an AWS Clean Rooms collaboration based on their specific use cases. With the custom analysis rule, customers can create their own […]