EC2 VM Import / Export (VMIE) now allows you to import virtual machine images with Red Hat Linux (RHEL) 8/8.1/8.2 and CentOS 8/8.1/8.2 for creating Amazon Machine Images (AMI). You can use the AMI to create Amazon EC2 instances.  

Details: Amazon CloudFront now supports a new security policy, TLSv1.2_2019, which includes only the following ciphers:

• ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256
• ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256
• ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384
• ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384

Today we’re excited to announce two new courses and two refreshed courses created specifically for our Amazon Partner Network (APN) Partner community. First, AWS Solutions Training for Partners: Amazon Connect (Business) is a new digital course designed to help partners understand how to discuss the business advantages of creating a cloud-based contact center with Amazon Connect. Enroll in this 90-minute digital course and start learning today!

AWS Systems Manager now supports scheduling of maintenance tasks, such as applying patches, offset from a specific day in a specific week of the month. This enables IT operators to specify the number of days to wait before executing a maintenance window. 

Today Amazon Corretto is releasing its July quarterly critical updates. This release also includes Corretto 8 & 11 support for Alpine Linux, Corretto 8 with JFR (JDK Flight Recorder) which can be used with JMC (JDK Mission Control) built for (to support) Corretto , Corretto 11 32bit x86 for Linux and ARM64 optimizations for both Corretto 8 & 11.

CDK Pipelines is a construct library for the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) that makes it easy to set up simple or complex continuous delivery pipelines with AWS CodePipeline. With CDK Pipelines, development teams can define and share “pipelines-as-code” patterns for deploying their applications. Teams can easily add stages to their pipeline to deploy their applications across multiple AWS accounts or additional AWS Regions. 

AWS Service Catalog is now available in two new AWS Regions. With this release, AWS Service Catalog is now available in 21 regions including US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (N. California, Oregon), Canada (Central), South America (São Paulo), Europe (Ireland, Frankfurt, London, Paris, Stockholm and Milan), South America (Sao Paulo), Middle East (Bahrain) and Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Hong Kong, and Tokyo) and Africa (Cape Town). AWS Service Catalog is also available in GovCloud (US-West) and GovCloud (US-East) Regions, AWS Regions designed to host sensitive data and regulated workloads in the cloud for customers who have U.S. federal, state, and local government compliance requirements.

We’re excited to announce two digital courses, CloudEndure Disaster Recovery Technical Training and CloudEndure Migration Training – Technical. These courses will teach you technology features, best practices, and implementation steps to build disaster recovery and migration services with confidence. These courses, 90 minutes and  two hours in length respectively, are designed for solution architects and engineers managing disaster recovery and migration projects.

Customers using container services including Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Services (EKS), or self-managed Kubernetes can now send their container logs to Amazon Elasticsearch Service using the Fluent Bit log router. Fluent Bit allows customers to route container logs to various AWS and partner monitoring solutions including CloudWatch, Amazon Kinesis, Datadog, Splunk, and now Amazon Elasticsearch Service.

Amazon SageMaker Debugger is a new capability of Amazon SageMaker that provides complete insights into the training process of machine learning (ML) models by automating the capture and analysis of data from training runs at real time, with no code changes.