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Week 12 of 2021 (Mar 19 – Mar 25, 2021) · AWS News

AWS announcements (unofficial newsfeed)

50 new features AWS announced in the week of Mar 19 – Mar 25, 2021

Thursday, Mar 25

AWS Security Hub integrates with Amazon Macie to automatically ingest sensitive data findings for improved centralized security posture management
Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports highly available clusters on AWS Local Zones
AWS Backup is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region
Detect anomalies in your metrics, and diagnose issues quickly with Amazon Lookout for Metrics – now generally available
Lower Cost Storage Classes for Amazon Elastic File System are now available in Asia (Osaka) region
Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics now supports Python with Apache Flink v1.11
Amazon Polly NTTS voices now available in Canada (Central), and Asia Pacific (Seoul)
AWS License Manager adds ability to set up exclusion rules for automated discovery
Configurable Endpoints with Custom Domains now generally available for AWS IoT Core

Wednesday, Mar 24

Updated classroom course: Advanced Architecting on AWS
Amazon Kendra adds new partner search connectors from Perficient
AWS Snowcone is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region in Australia
NICE DCV releases web client SDK for building customized web applications
Amazon and Red Hat announce the General Availability of Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA)

Tuesday, Mar 23

Amazon EFS CSI driver now supports dynamic provisioning
Amazon RDS for MariaDB M6g and R6g instances now available in N. California, Canada, São Paulo, and London regions
AWS Cost Categories now supports inherited and default values
AWS Glue Studio now supports transforms defined in SQL
Amazon Redshift Spectrum launches in four additional AWS Regions

Monday, Mar 22

AWS Database Migration Service now supports Db2 LUW version 11.5 as a source
Sellers can now manage versions and update information of their AMI and Container products through the AWS Marketplace Catalog API
AWS IoT Core’s Apache Kafka action now supports username and password authentication for Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK)
AWS Client VPN announces expanded presence inside six AWS Regions
AWS Audit Manager now supports CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark v1.3.0, Level 1 and 2 as a new standard framework

Friday, Mar 19

AWS Solutions Implementation - The Discovering Hot Topics Using Machine Learning solution adds the capability to filter and visualize Twitter topics based on geographical coordinates
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports January 2021 Patch Set Update (PSU) for Oracle Database 12.1
Amazon EKS reduces control plane creation time for EKS clusters by 40%
AWS Proton introduces deletion protection for in-use templates
AWS Gateway Load Balancer is now available in additional 9 regions

Now available AWS SSO credential profile support in the AWS Toolkit for VS Code

AWS Backup adds support for bulk deletion of recovery points

AWS CloudTrail Adds Logging of Data Events for Amazon DynamoDB

Announcing General Availability of AWS IoT Device Defender ML Detect

Amazon Timestream now supports Amazon VPC endpoints

Create forecasting systems faster with automated workflows and notifications in Amazon Forecast

Amazon Detective launches in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

AWS Cloud Map now supports API-only services in namespaces configured with DNS resolution

Amazon AppFlow now supports Zendesk as a destination

Amazon Elasticsearch Service announces Auto-Tune feature for improved performance and application availability

AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports Enhanced Debug Logs and other enhancements *

Now you can use AWS CloudTrail to log data-plane API activity to monitor, alarm, and archive item-level activity in your Amazon DynamoDB tables

Amazon QuickSight launches Custom Tooltips, Updates to Anomaly Detection, and More

Leverage state of the art Natural Language Processing with Hugging Face and Amazon SageMaker

Announcing AWS Media Intelligence solutions

Amazon EC2 M5n, M5dn, R5n, and R5dn instances now available in additional regions

Amazon VPC Endpoints For Amazon EC2 Are Now Available In Asia Pacific (Osaka)

Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances based on AWS Inferentia now available in 4 additional regions

Amazon CloudFront launches in Indonesia

Amazon EC2 now supports UEFI boot when migrating virtual machines to EC2

AWS Fargate updates platform version 1.4.0 to be the LATEST version