Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) now supports resource identifiers and tags for security group rules. You can now manage VPC security group rules using the assigned rule IDs and resource tags.

Amazon CloudFront announces two new APIs, ListConflictingAliases and AssociateAlias, that help locate and move Alternate Domain Names (CNAMEs) if you encounter the CNAMEAlreadyExists error code. These new APIs let you see which distribution has the CNAME and move the CNAME to a target distribution as long as the source distribution is in the same account or if the source distribution in another account is disabled. To move a CNAME between accounts where the source distribution is still enabled, you must contact AWS Support and follow these steps.

AWS Storage Gateway adds support for AWS Privatelink for Amazon S3 and Amazon S3 Access Points.  If you use Amazon S3 File Gateway for your on-premises gateway (VMware, Microsoft Hyper V, Linux Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) or AWS Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance), you can now create a private connection from your gateway directly to Amazon S3 without the need for an HTTP proxy.

Following the announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database , we have updated Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL to support PostgreSQL minor versions 13.3, 12.7, 11.12, 10.17, and 9.6.22. This release closes security vulnerabilities in PostgreSQL and contains bug fixes and improvements done by the PostgreSQL community.

AWS Training and Certification is pleased to introduce a free digital course: Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery. This advanced, 50-minute course will help you learn how to implement a business continuity and disaster recovery plan for your Amazon S3 implementation. Designed for cloud architects, storage architects, developers, and operations engineers, it includes interactive lessons and a quiz to check your knowledge.

Amazon AppStream 2.0 now supports real-time audio-video (AV) by seamlessly redirecting local webcam video input to AppStream 2.0 streaming sessions using a web browser. Previously, this feature was available only for the AppStream 2.0 client for Windows. With real-time AV support available in the web browser, your users can use AV collaboration and media applications within their AppStream 2.0 streaming sessions, and connect from a broad range of client devices, including Windows PCs, Macs, Chromebooks, and thin clients. Your users can collaborate without having to leave their AppStream 2.0 sessions, and without additional client software to manage.

Effective July 1, 2021, AWS is reducing data processing charges for VPC Interface Endpoints (powered by AWS PrivateLink). The new tiered pricing will reduce the costs for accessing high-volume, data intensive services over AWS PrivateLink. AWS PrivateLink enables customers to access AWS services or any other service hosted on AWS in a secure and scalable manner, while keeping all the network traffic within the AWS network. 

With today’s release, Amplify DataStore now supports multiple authorization modes, making it easy for developers to control how their users can access app data. DataStore provides frontend app developers the ability to build real-time apps with offline capabilities by storing data on-device (web browser or mobile device) and automatically synchronizing data to the cloud and across devices on an internet connection. Customers can configure authorization rules visually using Amplify Admin UI or by editing a GraphQL schema file using the Amplify CLI.

Today, AWS announces a new feature of Application Manager, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, which customers can use to manage and provision their AWS CloudFormation templates and stacks without leaving the Application Manager console. With Application Manager, customers can discover and manage applications across multiple AWS services like AWS Launch Wizard, AWS Service Catalog App Registry, AWS Resource Groups, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), and Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). This new feature provides customers with a ready-to-use solution to manage the lifecycle of CloudFormation templates and stacks without having to set up Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) or version control systems for template management.