Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports memory optimized X2idn, X2iedn, and X2iezn instances designed to deliver fast performance for workloads that process large data sets in memory.

Amazon Translate is a neural machine translation service that delivers fast, high-quality, affordable, and customizable language translation. Today, Amazon Translate launches support for translation of files stored in nested S3 folders.

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports copying option groups during in-region cross-account snapshot copy requests using the API, CLI, or AWS Backup. Amazon RDS uses option groups to enable and configure features that make it simple to manage your databases. Copying the option groups with the snapshot on cross account copy allows you to restore that snapshot in the target account with the same options as the source snapshot without needing to reconfigure the option groups. 

You can now enable granular access controls for users by configuring resource tags within the Amazon Connect admin website. Tagging a user allows you to configure granular permissions and define who is able to access a specific user record. For example, you can now tag users with Team:Innovators and then only let the Innovators team manager see or edit these users. To learn more about tagging users and tag-based access controls, see the Connect Administrator Guide .

AWS Amplify is announcing the release of version 5 of the JavaScript library, which includes highly requested features for Web and React Native developers. This release also introduces a new Notifications channel, In-App Messaging, that developers can use to display contextual messages to their users based on their behavior. The Amplify JavaScript library has also received improvements to reduce the overall bundle size and installation size. 

You can now enable more granular access controls for security profiles by configuring resource tags within the Amazon Connect admin website. Tagging a security profile allows you to configure granular permissions and define who is able to access a specific security profile. For example, you can now tag all security profiles assigned to users within a business process outsourcer (BPO) with BPO:A, and then only enable administrators of that BPO to access to these security profiles. To learn more about tagging security profiles and tag-based access controls, see the Connect Administrator Guide .

Amazon MQ is now available in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region . With this launch, Amazon MQ is now available in a total of 27 regions.

Starting in April 2023, Amazon S3 will introduce two new default bucket security settings by automatically enabling S3 Block Public Access and disabling S3 access control lists (ACLs) for all new S3 buckets. Once complete, these defaults will apply to all new buckets regardless of how they are created, including AWS CLI, APIs, SDKs, and AWS CloudFormation. These defaults have been in place for buckets created in the S3 management console since the two features became available in 2018 and 2021, respectively, and are recommended security best practices. There is no change for existing buckets.

Amazon GuardDuty is now available in the Europe (Zurich) Region. You can now continuously monitor and detect security threats in this additional region to help protect your AWS accounts, workloads, and data.

Amazon EBS direct APIs now support the IPv6 protocol, so that applications to connect through EBS direct APIs over IPv6. EBS direct APIs enable customers to simplify their backup and recovery workflows by directly creating and reading EBS snapshots via APIs. With this change, customers can meet their IPv6 compliance needs, integrate with existing IPv6-based on-premises applications, and remove the need for expensive networking equipment to handle the address translation between IPv4 and IPv6.