AWS Fargate adds the ability to monitor the utilization of the ephemeral storage attached to a Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) task. Customers can track the storage utilization with Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights and ECS Task Metadata endpoint.

Starting today, Amazon EC2 enables customer created tags to be included during Amazon Machine Image (AMI) CopyImage operations. This feature aims to reduce customer burden if you want to employ the same tags across all your copied AMIs. Previously, when you created a copy of an AMI, any tags you created for that AMI did not get copied over to the new AMI. You had to apply the tags to the new AMI manually after it was created if you wanted to replicate the same tags from the original AMI.

The ACK controller for Amazon EMR on Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) has graduated to generally available status. Using the ACK controller for EMR on EKS, you can declaratively define and manage EMR on EKS resources such as virtual clusters and job runs as Kubernetes custom resources. This lets you manage these resources directly using Kubernetes-native tools such as ‘kubectl’. 

Amazon MemoryDB for Redis is now a System and Organization Controls (SOC) compliant service. You can now use MemoryDB for workloads that are subject to SOC compliance, allowing you to get deep insight into the security processes and controls that protect customer data. AWS SOC reports are independent third-party examination reports that demonstrate how AWS achieves key compliance controls and objectives. The purpose of these reports is to help you and your auditors understand the AWS controls established to support operations and compliance.

AWS Organizations now supports AWS CloudFormation, allowing customers to manage accounts, organizational units (OUs), and policies within their organization using CloudFormation templates. With this latest integration, customers can efficiently deploy multiple organizational elements in a stack, allowing them to more easily scale across accounts with organization policies in place.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports MariaDB minor versions 10.6.11, 10.5.18, 10.4.27 and 10.3.37. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MariaDB, and to benefit from the numerous bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MariaDB community.

Today, we announce the public availability of Amazon’s state-of-the-art Alexa Teacher Model 20 Billion parameter model (AlexaTM 20B) in SageMaker JumpStart. Customers can access the AlexaTM 20B model programmatically to run inference using APIs available in SageMaker Python SDK .

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for Oracle, a managed database service for legacy, custom, and packaged applications that require access to the underlying operating system and database environment, now supports the Oracle Multitenant option on Oracle Database (DB) version 19c using Enterprise Edition. With this release, the Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle DB instance can operate as a multitenant container database (CDB) hosting one or more pluggable databases (PDBs). A PDB is a set of schemas, schema objects, and non-schema objects that logically appears to a client as a non-CDB.  

Amazon Web Services announces AWS Nitro System support for EC2’s previous generation of instances to extend the length of service beyond the typical lifetime of the underlying hardware. The AWS Nitro System provides modern hardware and software components for EC2 instances, allowing customers to continue running their workloads and applications on the instance families they were built on without any service life concerns. 

Amazon Translate is a neural machine translation service that delivers fast, high-quality, affordable, and customizable language translation. Today, we are launching support of tagging for custom terminology and parallel data resources and then allow/restrict access on them based on the tags.