AWS Glue now provides example jobs for visual ETL and notebooks, drag-and-drop for connecting nodes, a data-preview-focused layout, and a simpler UI with fewer clicks. AWS Glue Studio offers a visual extract-transform-and-load (ETL) interface to author, run, and monitor AWS Glue ETL jobs. These improvements make it faster to work with and easier to learn.

AWS customers using the AWS Console Mobile App for iOS can now use their mobile device’s password manager for faster sign in, set a default AWS identity for quicker recurring access to their resources, and use supported virtual authenticator apps, FIDO security keys and hardware TOTP tokens for multi-factor authentication (MFA). The enhanced sign in experience for the AWS Console Mobile App for Android is coming soon.

AWS Transfer Family now supports the option to include username and password credentials, termed as Basic authentication, when sending Applicability Statement 2 (AS2) messages over HTTPS. This enables you to be compatible with your trading partner’s AS2 implementations that require Basic authentication and comply with their security requirements. 

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now support AWS Graviton3-based M7g and R7g database instances in Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo) and Europe (Frankfurt). Graviton3-based instances provide up to a 30% performance improvement and up to a 27% price/performance improvement (based on on-demand pricing) over Graviton2-based instances on RDS for open-source databases depending on database engine, version, and workload.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for Oracle, a managed database services for legacy, custom, and packaged applications that require access to the underlying operating system and database environment, is now available in the AWS Region of Europe (Milan).

Today, we are excited to introduce a new management action for AWS Migration Hub, giving the ability to change the AWS Region used to store discovery and migration planning information.

Today, we are excited to introduce a new set of management actions for AWS Application Discovery Service (ADS), supporting the removal of resources no longer needed to be tracked as part of a migration.

Amazon SNS message data protection is a set of capabilities that leverage pattern matching, machine learning models, and content policies to help security and engineering teams facilitate real-time data protection in their applications that use Amazon SNS to exchange high volumes of data. Now, you can use custom data identifiers to detect the protect domain-specific sensitive data, such as your company’s employee IDs. Previously, you could only use managed data identifiers to detect and protect common sensitive data, such as names, addresses, and credit card numbers.

AWS Config now supports 19 more resource types for services, including Amazon AppStream 2.0, AWS Batch, AWS CodeBuild, Amazon CodeGuru Profiler, AWS Cloud Map, AWS Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), AWS Elemental MediaConnect, Amazon Inspector, AWS IoT, AWS IoT TwinMaker, AWS IoT Wireless, AWS Managed Service for Prometheus, Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK), Amazon Personalize, Amazon Route 53 Resolver, Amazon SageMaker, and AWS Transfer Family.

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M2 Mac instances are now generally available (GA). These instances deliver up to 10% faster performance over the existing M1 Mac instances when building and testing applications for Apple platforms such as iOS, macOS, iPadOS, tvOS, watchOS, visionOS, and Safari. M2 Mac instances are powered by the AWS Nitro System and are built on Apple M2 Mac Mini computers featuring 8 core CPU, 10 core GPU, 24 GiB of memory, and 16 core Apple Neural Engine.