Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports the Rust programming language as a new trusted procedural language in PostgreSQL major versions 13 and 14, expanding support for Rust from major version 15. This helps you build high performance user-defined functions to extend PostgreSQL for compute-intensive data processing.

Starting today, AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) supports additional application validation, configuration and modernization actions. 

Today, AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces launched an SSM automation document for use as an AWS Application Migration Service post launch action. Refactor Spaces provides the AWS infrastructure for incrementally refactoring to microservices that reduces risk when evolving applications, accelerates team agility, and ensures deployment independence. Refactor Spaces’ SSM document automates the creation of a refactor environment and routing traffic to your application running on EC2, so you can continue modernizing as soon as you’ve migrated an application. 

Service Quotas now supports requesting a quota increase on number of instances for a specific Amazon OpenSearch Service domain in your AWS account. With this launch, you can also view applied quota values for each domain in your AWS account.

Starting today, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle supports the auto-upgrade of Oracle time zone files for DB instances on the multitenant container database (CDB) architecture running in single-tenant configuration . The Oracle time zone file auto-upgrade feature provides an automated way to upgrade the daylight savings time (DST) time zone file version in the DB instance.

Today, AWS is renaming Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics to Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink. With Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink, you can transform and analyze streaming data in real time with Apache Flink, an open-source framework and engine for processing data streams. The name change is effective in the AWS Management Console, documentation, and service webpages. There are no other changes, including to service endpoints, APIs, the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) access policies, Amazon CloudWatch metrics, or the AWS Billing console dashboard. Your existing applications will continue to work as they did previously.

Today, AWS Clean Rooms announces two new capabilities: the general availability of configurable analysis results setting and the preview of Apache Iceberg support. These launches give customers more flexibility to configure AWS Clean Rooms collaborations with their preferred result recipient and data format.

You can now route any IPv4 and IPv6 traffic entering your Amazon VPC from virtual private gateway through a Gateway Load Balancer endpoint before the traffic reaches the destination. You can use Gateway Load Balancer Endpoint to process your VPC traffic through AWS Network Firewall or other security appliances available on AWS Market Place.

Amazon Connect launches new features that improve the user bulk editing experience. With this launch, you can now update multiple user records simultaneously on the Amazon Connect admin website in less than half the time it used to take to make bulk updates. These time savings can make a difference, for example in a crisis situation, when you need to update hundreds of agent routing profiles to ensure that inbound contacts do not experience extreme wait times. For more information see the Amazon Connect admin guide . 

We’re excited to announce that Android, Swift, and Flutter libraries now support Time-Based One-time Passwords (TOTP) as a multi-factor authentication (MFA) method. This feature enables developers to provide their users with a secure option for validating a user’s identity after they provide their username and password.