Today, AWS Backup announces the preview of logically air-gapped vault, a new type of AWS Backup Vault that allows secure sharing of backups across accounts and organizations, supporting direct restore to help reduce recovery time from a data loss event. AWS Backup is a fully managed service that centralizes and automates data protection across AWS services and hybrid workloads. Logically air-gapped vault stores immutable backup copies that are locked by default, and isolated with encryption using AWS owned keys.

Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval improves data restore time by up to 85%, at no additional cost. Faster data restores automatically apply to the Standard retrieval tier when using Amazon S3 Batch Operations. These restores begin to return objects within minutes, so you can process restored data faster. Now, whether you are transcoding media, restoring operational backups, training machine learning models, or analyzing historical data, you can easily speed up your data restores from archive.

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, a service that provides fully managed file storage built on Windows Server, now enables you to select and update the level of I/O operations per second (IOPS) separately from storage capacity on your file system. This new capability enables you to improve price-performance for IOPS-intensive workloads like SQL Server databases and optimize costs for workloads with IOPS requirements that vary over time like periodic reporting jobs.

Today, AWS announces the general availability of Mountpoint for Amazon S3, a new open source file client that delivers high-throughput access to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), lowering processing times and compute costs for data lake applications. Mountpoint for Amazon S3 is a file client that translates local file system API calls to S3 object API calls such as GET and PUT.

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, a service that provides fully managed file storage built on Windows Server, is increasing the per-file system maximum throughput from 2 GB/s to 12 GB/s and maximum I/O operations per second (IOPS) from 80,000 to 350,000, enabling a broader set of performance-intensive workloads.

You can now use a Multi-AZ deployment option when creating file systems on Amazon FSx for OpenZFS, making it easy to deploy file storage that spans multiple AWS Availability Zones (AZs) to support business-critical workloads that require high availability and enhanced durability.

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 the ability to free up storage capacity on an FSx file system that has data synchronized with Amazon S3.

Starting today, customers can use Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for Apache Flink in Israel (Tel Aviv) region.

Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) live video output prices for Low-Latency Streaming are now reduced by up to 50%. Per hours rates for video output are cut by up to 50% in South Korea, 46% in India, 43% in Taiwan, 41% in Australia, 30% in South America, 29% in Japan, Hong Kong, and South East Asia, and 4% in North America and Europe.

Amazon Detective has released several enhancements to finding groups visualization that help reduce noise and make your security investigations more effective. These enhancements help cut down on the amount of time it takes to identify root cause and affected resources in potential security issues.