Amazon ECR is announcing the preview of repository creation templates, allowing customers to specify initial configuration for repositories that are automatically created by ECR via pull through cache . ECR customers can now specify configuration for these repositories, including encryption settings, lifecycle policies, and repository permissions. This enables customers to define custom configurations and assign them as defaults for various use cases within their registries. 

AWS Transfer Family now offers increased limits for logical directory mappings up to 2.1 MB for SFTP, FTPS, and FTP customers, enabling finer grained control over how you present your files to your users. This gives you even more control to configure user access to securely upload and share massive volumes of data seamlessly across different teams, regions, and applications at scale.

AWS Trusted Advisor introduces new APIs to enable you to programmatically access Trusted Advisor best practice checks, recommendations, and prioritized recommendations. Trusted Advisor continuously evaluates your AWS environment using best practice checks in the categories of cost optimization, performance, resilience, security, operational excellence, and service quotas, and recommends actions to remediate any deviations from best practices. Trusted Advisor Priority provides context driven and prioritized recommendations from your AWS account team to help you focus on the most important recommendations.

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7g, M7g, R7g instances are available in AWS Region Asia Pacific (Seoul). Amazon EC2 C7g instances are also available in AWS Region Europe (Stockholm).

Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) now includes Docker Hub, Azure Container Registry, and GitHub Container Registry as supported upstream registries for ECR’s pull through cache feature. With today’s release, customers can configure a rule that is designed to automatically sync images from the newly supported upstream registries to their private ECR repositories. 

AWS Transfer Family now supports port 2222 for SFTP servers with VPC-hosted endpoints. This enables you to enhance the security of your servers as well as accommodate your business partners’ port requirements.

AWS Marketplace now offers more convenient methods of payment for customers leveraging the flexible payment scheduler. Partners selling on AWS Marketplace can extend AWS Marketplace Private Offers with the flexible payment scheduler to customers on any AWS approved payment method – credit cards, bank accounts, Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) network, or invoicing terms. 

Amazon QuickSight launches custom permissions support for roles to restrict QuickSight functionality for users based on their role in the account (Reader, Author, Admin.) This feature is supported with all QuickSight identity types, including IAM Identity Center.

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for MySQL now supports creating active-active clusters using the Group Replication plugin. You can use the plugin to set up active-active replication between your RDS for MySQL database instances to provide continuous availability for your applications. Writing to two or more database instances in an active-active cluster can help maximize availability and reduce write latency.

Amazon EventBridge EventBus allows customers to audit and monitor the actions in their AWS environments through events that are generated by AWS CloudTrail for API calls. Previously, only mutating API calls (for example: Create, Update, or Delete) were available in EventBridge. With support for read-only API events (for example: List, Get or Describe), customers will be able to receive and process the full suite of CloudTrail events from services that are integrated with EventBridge.