AWS App2Container (A2C) now supports remote execution of containerization Workflow. With this feature, users can now direct A2C workflows that need to be run on an application server (where applications are deployed) remotely. This is done without directly logging into the application server. Ability to run some of the containerization workflows remotely, has been supported in previous releases. With this new feature, users can now use a remote machine as a single place to run all A2C workflows interacting with applications running on different application servers. This eliminates the need for installing A2C on each application server.

Today, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) announced the general availability of Amazon ECS deployment circuit breaker, for EC2 and Fargate launch types. With this feature, Amazon ECS customers using the ECS Rolling update deployment type can automatically roll back unhealthy service deployments without the need for manual intervention. This empowers customers to quickly discover failed deployments, without worrying about resources being consumed for failing tasks, or indefinite deployment delays. 

Customers are no longer required to execute a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) before downloading AWS compliance reports from the AWS Artifact service. As such, we have removed the click-through NDA requirement from most compliance reports. Instead, we have added applicable Terms and Conditions (T&Cs) to the first page of every compliance report in AWS Artifact, that details the circumstances under which customers can distribute the applicable report. AWS customers can now share many of the AWS compliance reports (depending on the T&Cs) with their regulators and customers directly, without requiring to contact AWS for such requests.

Starting today, general purpose Amazon EC2 M5zn instances are available in the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) region. These new instances are a high frequency, high speed and low-latency networking variant of Amazon EC2 M5 instances, powered by custom 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Cascade Lake). M5zn instances deliver the highest all-core turbo CPU performance from Intel Xeon Scalable processors in the cloud, with a frequency up to 4.5 GHz.

High-Governance Foundation with AWS Control Tower is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Logicworks, an AWS Migration Competency Partner. High-Governance Foundation with AWS Control Tower accelerates the design and build-out of cloud architecture that can scale to support multiple teams, applications, or tenants. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in an engagement that delivers assessment of customer requirements and existing architecture; design and build of the solution; and migration, testing, and optional management of the new environment.

AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) has expanded functionality by adding support for MariaDB version 10.4 . Using AWS DMS, you can now perform live migrations from any AWS DMS supported sources to MariaDB 10.4 databases, and from MariaDB 10.4 databases to any AWS DMS supported targets .

AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) has expanded its functionality by supporting parallel apply when using Redshift as a target during on-going replications. Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud. You can start with just a few hundred gigabytes of data and scale to a petabyte or more. By taking advantage of the multithreaded CDC task settings, you can improve the performance of your on-going replications from any DMS supported sources to Amazon Redshift.

Amazon GuardDuty introduces three new threat detections that inform you when data residing in your Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets is accessed from an IP address associated with known malicious actors on the internet. These threat detections are available to customers that have enabled S3 protection in GuardDuty, and represent the latest in a continuously growing library of managed threat detections available for customers who enable Amazon GuardDuty in their AWS accounts.

Starting today, Amazon EC2 M6g, C6g, and R6g instances are available in South America (Sao Paulo) and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Amazon EC2 M6g, C6g, and R6g instances deliver up to 40% better price/performance over comparable x86-based instances for a broad spectrum of workloads, including application servers, micro-services, high-performance computing, CPU-based machine learning inference, electronic design automation, gaming, open-source databases, and in-memory caches.

AWS OpsHub now supports the Linux operating system. AWS OpsHub is a graphical user interface you can use to manage your AWS Snowcone and AWS Snowball devices, enabling you to rapidly deploy edge computing workloads and simplify data migration to the cloud. With just a few clicks in AWS OpsHub, you have the full functionality of Snow devices at your fingertips; you can unlock and configure devices, drag-and-drop data to devices, launch applications, and monitor device metrics. AWS OpsHub for Windows and Mac operating systems was announced in April 2020. Starting today, AWS OpsHub will be available for Linux as well.