AWS Glue for Apache Spark announces the launch of six new database connectors: Teradata, SAP HANA, Azure SQL, Azure Cosmos DB, Vertica, and MongoDB. These native connectors enable users to efficiently read and write data from these systems without the need to install or manage any connector libraries. Users can add these databases as a source or target within AWS Glue Studio’s no-code, drag-and-drop visual interface or use the connector directly in an AWS Glue ETL script job.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for SQL Server now allows customers to use SQL Server Developer Edition by providing their own SQL Server Developer Edition installation media when creating an instance. Utilizing Developer Edition allows customers to lower the cost of development and testing with Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server. Amazon RDS Custom is a managed database service that allows customization of the underlying operating system and database environment. Features of RDS Custom for SQL Server include Multi-AZ deployment, BYOL using Bring-Your-Own-Media and more. 

Amazon S3 Storage Lens now provides request metrics for prefixes within an S3 bucket. Prefix-level metrics like total request counts, request counts by status code, bytes downloaded, and more, help you better understand activity for the largest prefixes within a bucket, and identify opportunities to optimize your S3 storage.

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.