AWS

AWS Outposts can now be shipped and installed at your datacenter and on-premises locations in Iceland and Uruguay.

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AWS Transfer Family now offers customers the option to require both SSH key and password authentication when users connect to their SFTP servers. This new method of authentication allows customers to add an additional level of protection to their data when authorizing users to securely access their files.

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The Amazon VPC Container Networking Interface (CNI) Plugin now supports the Kubernetes NetworkPolicy resource. Customers can use the same open-source Amazon VPC CNI to implement both pod networking and network policies to secure the traffic in their Kubernetes clusters. This reduces the need to run additional software for network access controls and will work alongside all existing VPC CNI capabilities.

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Using AWS Elemental MediaTailor you can now enable or disable non-linear overlay ads at a per-session level.

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Today, AWS Backup announces support for local time zone selection in your backup plan, allowing you to manage your backup schedule according to your local time zone. AWS Backup is a fully managed service that centralizes and automates data protection across AWS services and hybrid workloads. Now, when creating or editing existing backup plans, you can select a backup window time zone, eliminating the need for manual time zone conversions from UTC. 

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AWS Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA) launches the Connector for Active Directory (AD). The Connector for AD allows you to use AWS Private CA as a drop-in replacement for your self-managed enterprise certificate authorities without the need to deploy, patch, or update local agents or proxy servers. Enterprises that use AD to manage Windows environments can reduce their private certificate authority (CA) costs and complexity. You can help meet your security and compliance goals by using AWS Private CA, a fully-managed service, which stores CA private keys in FIPS 140 validated hardware security modules (HSMs).

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We are excited to announce the integration of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless with AWS User Notifications. OpenSearch Serverless is the serverless option for Amazon OpenSearch Service that makes it simple for you to run search and analytics workloads without having to think about infrastructure management.

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Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Optimized Writes now supports m6i and m6g database (DB) instances. With Amazon RDS Optimized Writes you can improve the write throughput for Amazon RDS for MySQL and MariaDB workloads by up to 2x at no additional cost. This is especially useful for write-intensive database workloads, commonly found in applications such as digital payments, financial trading, and online gaming.

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Amazon FSx for Lustre, a fully managed service that makes it easy and cost effective to launch, run, and scale the world’s most popular high-performance file system, now supports project quotas. With project quotas, you can group multiple files or directories on your file system into a project, and monitor storage consumption on a per-project basis. Project quotas are ideal for storage administrators who manage file systems that serve multiple projects or teams who want to ensure that no project exceeds its allocated storage capacity.

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Amazon Connect Cases now supports nine additional languages: Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazilian), and Spanish. Now, you can view the Amazon Connect Cases UI in any language supported by Amazon Connect regardless of your AWS Region.

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Starting today, customers can use AWS Control Tower in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. With this launch, AWS Control Tower is available in 23 AWS Regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. AWS Control Tower offers the easiest way to set up and govern a secure, multi-account AWS environment. It simplifies AWS experiences by orchestrating multiple AWS services on your behalf while maintaining the security and compliance needs of your organization. You can set up a multi-account AWS environment within 30 minutes or less, govern new or existing account configurations, gain visibility into compliance status, and enforce controls at scale.

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AWS Compute Optimizer now recommends licensing optimization opportunities for Microsoft SQL Server workloads on Amazon EC2. With this launch, AWS Compute Optimizer can provide automated recommendations for downgrading SQL Server Edition for your EC2 SQL Server license included and bring-your-own-license (BYOL) instances to reduce licensing cost.

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Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights now offers observability of SAP NetWeaver applications deployed with Standard System Deployment architecture. This launch builds on our observability of multi-app deployments on a single instance. Application Insights helps customers gain insights for their SAP and non-SAP applications, databases and AWS resources by making it easy to set up and monitor applications, recognize problems, and use data to make decisions. 

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Customers that use Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) can now host their applications in Tel Aviv region, and send text messages (SMS) to consumers in more than 200 countries and territories. Using Amazon SNS, customers can send a message directly to one phone number, or multiple phone numbers at once by subscribing those phone numbers to a topic and sending messages to the topic. 

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You can now use AWS Elemental Link and AWS Elemental MediaLive to ingest and deliver KLV metadata from a MediaLive channel.

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Patch Manager, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, now supports instances running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.7, 9.0, 9.1, 9.2, Rocky Linux 8.6, 8.7, 9.0, 9.1, 9.2, and Oracle Linux 8.6, 8.7, 9.0, 9.1, and 9.2. Patch Manager enables you to automatically patch instances with both security-related and other types of updates across your infrastructure for a variety of common operating systems, including Windows Server, Amazon Linux, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). For a full list of supported operating systems, see the Patch Manager prerequisites user guide page.

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Amazon Connect now provides the ability for contact center administrators to apply granular permissions to the agent activity audit report in the Amazon Connect UI using resource tagging and tag-based access controls. This new capability enables customers to define who is able to see the historical agent statuses (e.g. “Available”) for specific agents. For example, you can tag agents with Team:Compliance and then only enable the Compliance team manager to see activity for these agents.

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Amazon QuickSight now supports scheduled generation of Excel workbooks by selecting multiple tables and pivot table visuals from any sheet of a dashboard. Snapshot Export APIs will now also support programmatic export to Excel format, in addition to Paginated PDF and CSV. 

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Amazon Detective is now available in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. You can now analyze, investigate, and quickly identify the root cause of potential security issues or suspicious activities using Detective in the new AWS Region.

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Starting today, you can use Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall in the Middle East (UAE) and Israel (Tel Aviv) Region.

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