Today, AWS announces the preview launch of Amazon GuardDuty EC2 Runtime Monitoring, an expansion of Amazon GuardDuty that introduces runtime threat detection for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) workloads.

Amazon Web Services announces Amazon EC2 U7i, next-generation High Memory instances. U7i instances offer up to 32TiB of DDR5 memory enabling customers to scale transaction processing throughput in a fast-growing data environment. U7i instances are part of AWS 7th generation and are powered by custom fourth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids) delivering up to 125% more compute performance over existing U-1 instances.

AWS Identity and Access Manager (IAM) Access Analyzer now simplifies inspecting unused access to guide you toward least privilege. IAM Access Analyzer continuously analyzes your accounts to identify unused access and creates a centralized dashboard with findings. Security teams can use the dashboard to review findings centrally and prioritize which accounts to review based on the volume of findings. The findings highlight unused roles, unused access keys for IAM users, and unused passwords for IAM users. For active IAM roles and users, the findings provide visibility into unused services and actions.

Starting today, you can create FSx for ONTAP scale-out file systems that deliver up to 36 GB/s of throughput and 1.2 million IOPS—9x higher performance than before. FSx for ONTAP is the first and only storage service that allows you to launch and run fully managed, fully-featured ONTAP file systems in the cloud. This allows you to migrate or extend your workloads that rely on ONTAP’s widely used data management features to AWS without having to modify your applications, tools, processes, or workflows. Now, you can leverage ONTAP’s data management features for an even broader range of high-performance workloads on AWS.

Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client, a low-cost end-user device that helps organizations reduce overall virtual desktop costs, strengthen security posture, and simplify end-user deployment. 

AWS Step Functions announces support for HTTPS endpoints, so you can now integrate with virtually any SaaS application directly from your workflows. In addition, AWS Step Functions launches a new TestState API to test a single step in your workflow, that helps accelerate development so you can deploy new features fast.

AWS Secrets Manager now supports a single API call to identify and retrieve a group of secrets for your application. The new API, BatchGetSecretValue, offers greater simplicity to common developer workflows where you need to bring multiple secrets into your application. With this feature, you no longer have to make iterative calls to retrieve one secret at a time or account for partial failures when pulling multiple secrets, enhancing the overall efficiency.

Amazon Detective now supports the ability to automatically investigate AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) entities for indicators of compromise (IoC). This new capability helps security analysts determine whether IAM entities have potentially been compromised or involved in any known tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP) from the MITRE ATT&CK framework.

Today at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) announced support for customer-specific inputs in AWS Security Hub controls that allow you to customize your security posture monitoring in AWS. Security Hub is a cloud security posture management (CSPM) service with hundreds of managed and automated controls that allow you to monitor your cloud resources and ensure they are configured securely. The new enhancements allow security teams to refine the best practices monitored by Security Hub controls to meet more specific security expectations.

Starting today, FreeRTOS roadmap is published on freertos.org and GitHub. With this update, you can transparently access information on specific FreeRTOS features and have a consolidated view of upcoming, ongoing, and shipped FreeRTOS projects to plan your projects accordingly. In addition, you can track the status of your requested FreeRTOS features or the projects you have volunteered to work on.